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Energy Efficiency
First certified passivhaus retrofit
2 March 2011: Octavia Housing have retrofitted an 1850s terraced house in a Holland Park conservation area to strict Passivhaus levels. Read more on the Passivhaus project here.
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Tagged Energy Efficiency, Housing, Kensington and Chelsea, Passivhaus
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Centre for Sustainable Energy DEC release
2 March 2011: The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) has put energy Display Energy Certificate (DEC) data for 40,000 buildings placed in public domain for the first time. The dataset includes the address, floorspace, heat and power consumption, carbon emissions, and energy efficiency rating. Until now, this information could only be obtained for one building at a time, and only in PDF format, making strategic assessments and estate-wide analysis almost impossible. CSE’s Head of Research Joshua Thumim explains why they have taken this step:
“This data belongs in the public domain. It took a lot of time and effort to persuade CLG to release it to us, and we are now pleased to be able to share it so no one else has to jump through all of those hoops. We hope that researchers, policy-makers, public agencies and others working in the field of sustainable energy can make effective use of the full dataset now that it is finally available.”
Read CSE’s press release here, where you can also download the full data set.
Major release of Display Energy Certificate (DEC) data
2 March 2011: The Centre for Sustainable Energy has put DEC data for 40,000 buildings- obtained from CLG – and placed in the public domain for the first time.
Kingston Vision for 2050 – A Green Future?
1 March 2011: Kingston held a one-day seminar on the future aspirations of a greener Kingston and the path to achieving climate change resiliency. Further details of current energy initiatives are set out in Kingston’s energy strategy.
English Housing Survey: Headline Report 2009-10
24 February 2011:Key indicators on energy performance in housing are detailed in this latest update published by CLG. Accompanying the report is a spreadsheet (English Housing Survey Headline Report 2009-10: Housing Stock Tables) providing a series of tables and figures on a number of very useful energy efficiency indicators. However – unfortunately no regional breakdown of these results are provided. Report and table downloadable from CLG’s website here.
English Housing Survey: Headline Report 2009-10
24 February 2011: Key indicators on energy performance in housing detailed in this latest update published by CLG. Posted alongside the report is a spreadsheet (English Housing Survey Headline Report 2009-10: Housing Stock Tables) providing a series of tables and figures on a number of very useful energy efficiency indicators. However – no regional breakdown of these results are provided.
Mayor’s responses to London Assembly energy and climate change questions
23 February 2011: Questions included Renewable Energy use by London Underground; police stations retrofitted under the Mayor’s RE:FIT programme; comment on the Mayor’s RE:NEW programme; why some lights can’t be switched off easily at tube stations; and funding of the Mayor’s electric vehicle programme.
Posted in Decentralised Energy, Energy Efficiency, News, Renewable Energy
Tagged Electric Vehicles, Mayor, Renewable Energy, Retrofit
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Code for Sustainable Homes and SAP ratings
22 February 2011: CLG statistical release on the number of CSH post construction stage certificates and design stage certificates issued up to and including December 2010. Includes a regional breakdown which highlights that most certificates awarded were in London, and also that London scored the highest SAP rating of dwellings built. The CLG report and spreadsheets of data sets are available here.
Brent Climate Change and Social Media Project
16 February 2011: Brent Council asked its residents to volunteer to monitor their energy consumption in their homes, thereby making it simple to save at least 10 per cent off their energy bills between mid May and mid November 2010. Participants were given small energy monitoring devices and were encouraged to create and maintain a lively citizen-driven dialogue on energy saving by using Social Media applications such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. 180 Brent residents registered their interest and after 6 months, savings of over 15 per cent were automatically reported by many. Further information on Brent’s website.
Update on London Green Fund
15 February 2011: The latest (February) ERDF newsletter by the LDA provides an update on the London Green Fund stating that: “The procurement process to select an organisation to set up and manage the Energy Efficiency Urban Development Fund (UDF) was launched in September 2010. Three bids were received by the EIB by the deadline in December. The bids are now being assessed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and it is anticipated that a preferred bidder will be selected in February. The timescale for concluding negotiations, once a preferred bidder is selected, is the end of June 2011.” The newsletter also sets out that with the government abolition of RDA’s, EU funding will now be handled by government departments, however, in London, it has confirmed that responsibility for management of European programmes will be transferred to the GLA in the summer of 2011. The February newsletter can be downloaded here.
Further information on the UDF fund manager is available on the LDA’s website here and in the European Investment Bank expression of interest documentation here.
A presentation made by the LDA in September 2010 on the London Green Fund is available here.
Local Carbon Frameworks Update
15 February 2011:The government is currently running a pilot programme with 9 local authority areas to co-design a series of Local Carbon Frameworks (LCF) to identify what works at what spatial level, and develop templates for action on carbon for all local authorities. Detail the LCF programme and the list of the projects currently underway – which includes a project in the London Borough of Haringey – are available on DECC’s website here.
Bromley acts to cut costs and carbon
15 February 2011:Bromley Councillors heard at their Executive meeting on 14 February, how investing in energy efficiency will help reduce costs by more than £220,000 a year. Cllr Neil Reddin, executive member for Resources, told the Council’s Executive that as part of an invest-to-save approach, an investment of £500,000 in energy saving measures will help to control the increasing energy costs of council buildings and street lighting. Read more on Bromley’s website here.