Tag Archives: Decentralised Energy

Mayor’s responses to London Assembly energy and climate change questions

23 March 2011: The Mayor’s responses to London Assembly energy and climate change questions
Questions included the Mayor’s target on decentralised energy; the Mayor’s bid to the EU ELENA programme for funding; the Mayor’s funding of environmental projects; and electric vehicle charging points.

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Funding revolution – A guide for local authorities

21 March 2011: A guide for local authorities, housing associations and community groups providing advice on establishing and running low-carbon community revolving funds. Written by Forum for the Future  in collaboration with Bates Wells and Braithwaite the report outlines how to use smart finance to kick-start carbon saving projects and make investments go further. Download the funding guidance report here.

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Islington Tender for DE scheme

4 March 2011: Islington Council invites suitable expressions of interest from suppliers to design and build a new Energy Centre with a gas engine CHP plant and a District Heating (DH) network providing a  heating supply to three existing residential estates and leisure facilities owned by Islington Council. Read more detail on the Islington tender here.

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Islington DE FAQ

4 March 2011:With reference to story above, Islington have issued a short FAQ document on their decentralised energy project for the Bunhill Energy Centre and Heat Network.

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London Heat Map Reports

15 February 2011Heat mapping reports for 19 London borough, produced in conjunction with boroughs under the LDA’s Decentralised Energy Master Planning (DEMaP) project.

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Heat Maps for 19 London boroughs completed

15 February 2011:The Decentralised Energy and Energy Masterplanning (DEMaP) Programme is delivered by the LDA and London Councils as part of the Mayor’s programme to shift London to a greater decentralised energy future.  Eleven borough heat mapping studies have been carried out in the Pilot Tranche (November 2009 – June 2010) with a further eight completed in Tranche 1 (September 2010 – February 2011) of the programme. The heat maps developed support the development of London Heat Map.
The individual Heat Map reports for the 19 boroughs have been posted online and can be downloaded www.londonheatmap.org.uk.

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Identifying sustainable energy options for your area

15 February 2011: Local authorities are exploring opportunities and starting energy generation projects across the UK. With the right to sell electricity and set up energy companies, local authorities can earn money through financial incentives such as the feed-in tariffs and the renewable heat incentive. Renewable energy is an investment opportunity for local government. This Local Government Group publication highlights examples of councils and communities that are leading on energy generation. It explains what they did to start and fund energy projects and the benefits these projects have brought to their area and includes examples from Tower Hamlets, Islington and the City of London.

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London Heat Map Reports

February 2011Heat mapping reports for 19 London boroughs produced under the LDA’s DEMaP programme.

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Funding approved for new gasification project

9 February 2011:The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has today agreed a £8.9 million loan to Biossence East London Ltd to support the development of what will be one of the UK’s first large scale advanced waste to energy gasification plants. Anticipated to operational in 2013 the 19MW generator will turn 100,000 tonnes of waste  each year into energy. The site has been bought from Ford, who will part-benefit from electricity generated by the plant.  Further information on the LWARB press release.  More on Bioessence here.

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Negotiations stall on Elephant and Castle’s MUSCo plans

8 February 2011: Southwark councillors have approved a proposal to call off negotiations with Dalkia to establish a mutli-utility services company (MUSCo) to provide provide locally generated heat, cooling, electricity and communications for the thousands of additional homes and businesses planned for the Elephant & Castle area. Read full news story here. (see 18 January news story here for further details).

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Decentralised Energy Masterplanning project gets RTPI praise

4 Feb 2011:The London Development Agency’s planning for decentralised energy master planning programme  (DEMaP) and London Heat Map have been commended at this year’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) awards. More here.

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Waste energy from local plant could generate heating to nearly 3,000 homes

27 January 2011: Southwark Council is working with Veolia Environmental Services looking at the possibility of heating nearly three thousand homes across five estates using waste energy from the nearby SELCHP generation plant – further details here.
Detailed information on opportunities to use heat from SELCHP are contained in an energy assessment undertaken for the Canada Water Area Action Plan (AAP). Published in three sections, the full report is available from Southwark’s website here.
Further details of Veolia’s plans for SELCHP are set out in the following Mayor’s planning report (763 Old Kent Road – search for ‘SELCHP’ in the report).

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