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Local authorities: What will the Green Deal mean for you?
After the launch on 23 November of the Green Deal consultation, and the announcement shortly after that an extra £200 million will be allocated by the treasury to ensure uptake Karen Lawrence, head of consulting here at Local Energy, shares her thoughts on what the programme will mean for local authorities. Local authorities using [...]
Tags: Green Deal, local authorities |
Green Deal consultation launched with information note for local authorities
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published on 22 November a consultation on the long-awaited flagship ‘Green Deal’ programme. DECC also released an information note for local authorities outlining what role they might play in the Green Deal. We encourage local authorities to have a look at the consultation, which ends on 18 [...]
Tags: consultation, DECC, Green Deal |
Precursor to the Renewable Heat Incentive sees uptake of air source heat pumps
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced on Friday 18 November that 24 social housing landlords have each secured up to £175,000 in the first phase of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to install green heating systems, with air source heat pumps proving the most popular technology. BusinessGreen reported that according to the [...]
CRC Performance League Table – Labour local authorities perform better than Cons and Lib Dems
Our analysis of the CRC Performance League Table (PLT) has found that amongst the 166 local authority participants in England and Wales, Labour councils performed better than Conservative and Liberal Democrat. Interestingly, councils with no overall political control performed significantly better than those with it. The Average EAM figures were 41.7 for those with no [...]
CRC participants who haven’t reported turnover risk unfair positioning in the next Performance League Table
Our analysis of the recently published Performance League Table has found that a large number of organisations (642/2103) have not reported their turnover. In particular, 25 of the 200 local authorities listed have failed to do so. Organisations who haven’t listed turnover will be given a score of 0 in the growth metric that compares [...]
How to be the greenest council ever
Last week, Karen Lawrence, head of CRC and Consultancy here at Local Energy took part in a Guardian Q&A that explored how to be the greenest local authority ever. Karen said: The idea that ‘being green’ costs more needs to be tackled: Energy efficiency can save councils millions of pounds a year and reduces carbon [...]
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CRC Performance League Table – key findings & summary
Here at Local Energy, we have been dissecting the first CRC Performance League Table. In particular, we have been interested in how the public sector fared. Here is a summary of our findings. Please click on the links for further information. 1. 40% of the participants had an EAM of 0 (803/2103) WSP Environment [...]
Head of CBI attacks plans to reduce the feed-in tariff as government faces legal battle
John Cridland, director general of the CBI, has weighed in on the government’s highly contentious plans to reduce the feed-in tariff. Speaking at the CBI dinner in Derby on the 10th November, he called the plans “the latest in a string of government own goals” arguing that they create uncertainty for investors and threaten the [...]
Tags: Andy Johnston, cbi, Feed In Tariff, Friends of The Earth, Greg Barker, john cridland, PV, solar |
