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Energy and Climate Questions to the Mayor

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Admin

October 2011: This month the Mayor answered London Assembly questions in relation to: a Decent Homes successor standard; the level of interest in the London Energy Efficiency Fund; GLA buildings Energy reduction targets;  Green Deal finance and Green Deal lobbying; Fuel Poverty; the Mayor’s support to the Warm Homes Amendment; Funding of waste to energy projects and additional detail on waste to energy schemes and three questions on AD: Anaerobic Digesters (1), Anaerobic Digesters (2) and Anaerobic Digesters (3)

Previous questions to the Mayor can be found here.

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Councils to kickstart Green Deal revolution

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Admin

17 October 2011: New local authority-backed financing model aims to scale up Green Deal programme. Read the full Business Green article here.

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Proposal for new Low Carbon Capital Workstreams

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Admin

October 2011: A series of papers presented to the GLA Investment and Performance Board to seek approval for the Stage 2 Investment Decision to deliver three new Low Carbon Capital Programme work streams at a total cost of £360,000.

The paper – Low Carbon Capital Stage 2 –  sets out that:

“The Low Carbon Capital Programme seeks to build on the previous Low Carbon Capital work carried out by Ernst and Young for LDA [see previous posts here and here for further information] by carrying out three enabling projects that would lead to reductions in London’s CO2 emissions through energy efficiency and decentralised energy measures with an investment potential of up to £9.1bn:

i. Heat Map+: Creating green investment opportunities, job and skills. This work stream will generate a pipeline of decentralised energy (DE) and public sector retrofitting investment opportunities (RE:FIT) through the further development of the existing GLA Heat Map.

ii. Smart City – Intelligent Energy Integration: Public sector driving low carbon solutions and demonstrators. 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050 with growing pressure on resources. Cities haveto become increasingly efficient and self-sufficient in energy. This project will specify how London’s energy infrastructure and consumers can intelligently adapt to changing demands to deliver environmental benefits and lower energy costs.

iii. Green Deal – London implementation: Making London’s size count by developing delivery models for use in London. London has over 3.2 million homes, a large-scale market opportunity, and Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation represent the main mechanisms for retrofitting its existing housing stock. This project will identify the most appropriate role for the public sector to play and then develop and test delivery models that will maximise retrofitting activity in London whilst creating economic opportunities for London’s businesses throughout the supply chain.”

Also available to download are the Heat Map appraisal application, the outline of financials for the project and a cost benefit of Heat Map+.

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Home Energy Pay As You Save Pilot Review

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Admin

8 September 2011: The (Pay As You Save) PAYS Review is a summary of the key findings from five pilots – which includes a trial in Sutton – that trialled a range of financing repayment options to incentivise householders to install energy efficient and micro-generation measures in their homes.  DECC report that the Energy Saving Trust (EST) PAYS Review “provides very useful insights into delivering financial packages to encourage energy-saving installations in homes. These insights include householder attitudes and preferences to the various delivery approaches adopted in the pilots. PAYS has demonstrated that innovative solutions can be developed to overcome the barriers associated with delivering energy saving measures into the UK housing stock. While these pilots did not test the Green Deal (to be launched in autumn 2012) – key features like repayment through energy bills and the ability to pass costs on when you move home will only be possible once legislation has passed – PAYS did test some consumer attitudes and types of delivery models. “

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Green Expectations: Lessons from the US green jobs market

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Admin

22 July 2011: Hanna Thomas of the East London Green Jobs Alliance is a co-author of this Institute of Public Policy Report (IPPR) report assessing the success of the ‘green jobs’ policy agenda in the US investigating a range of localised, bottom-up approaches to fostering the ‘green economy’. The report makes some useful comments in relation to the Government’s Green Deal programme, which “has been billed as having the potential to create 250,000 jobs, making it the largest single opportunity for job creation in UK energy and climate change policy. But the difficulties experienced in the US in creating jobs in this sector underline the challenge the Green Deal faces in realising this estimate and achieving wider policy success.”

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Green Deal boost to retrofit market

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Admin

7 July 2011: H&V news highlight interesting developments in Birmingham in respsonse to the Government’s Green Deal programme:

“Private finance is set to back the Green Deal market as councils gear up to begin the first stages of multi-billion-pound housing retrofit programmes.

Last week, Construction News reported Birmingham City Council is about to tender for a lead partner for its Green Deal retrofit programme, which could see the council use its borrowing to underpin the initial stages of the programme.

With private finance the scheme could be expanded to retrofit about 200,000 homes, spending around £1 billion by 2026.” Read the full article at the link above.

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(Green) Deal or No Deal?

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Admin

5 July 2011: Following a roundtable discussion which took place early in June involving a number of stakeholders including DECC, Future of London have produced a policy paper considering the Green Deal and issues that need to be resolved to ensure its successful introduction in London.

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Renewable Heat Incentive Guidance

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Admin

24 June 2011: Back in March, DECC announced details on the launch of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Some of the key points of the announcement included:

  • The regulations to introduce the RHI are currently going through Parliament  and are anticipated to be approved by summer 2011
  • The RHI would then be introduced “shortly thereafter” (anticipated  30 September 2011)
  • The scheme will be introduced in two phases with  non-domestic sectors targeted first – that is larger heat users in the industrial, business and public sectors. Tariffs for the various technologies within this phase (ie non-domestic scale projects) were announced in DECC’s March RHI press release.
  • Household sector support through the RHI would be introduced in October 2012, to tie in with the launch of the Green Deal however…
  • …In the meantime, up to 25,000 household installations will be supported by a £15m “RHI Premium Payment” to help people cover the purchase price of green heating systems and help encourage take-up of renewable heat technologies
  • The likely levels of support (set out in the DECC press release) for the RHI Premium Payments were: Solar Thermal – £300/unit; Air Source Heat Pumps – £850/unit; Biomass boilers – £950/unit and Ground Source Heat Pumps – £1250/unit
  • Details of the Premium Payment were originally said to have been issued in May, for a July 2011 start,  but as yet no information has appeared (the Ofgem paper released today – more of which below – simply says “Further information on the Renewable Heat Premium Payment will be available later in the year from DECC.”
  • Regulations around the October 2012 domestic/household phase of the RHI will be consulted upon next year.
  • Further details on the RHI are on DECC’s website.

Ofgem, who will administer the scheme, have today launched a detailed (two volume…) consultation on the eligibility criteria for installations wishing to apply for the RHI, including requirements such as the regular submission of heat data, meter readings and fuel data for certain bioenergy installations.

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HECA saved

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin

21 June 2011: The government had announced that as part of their ‘one in – one out’ policy on regulations, the introduction of the Energy Bill, currently going through Parliament, would result in the abolition in the Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA) 2005. Baroness Maddock – HECA’s original’s proposer – announced today (at the Microgeneration UK conference) that she had received notification from DECC that the Government had changed its mind and would now withdraw their plans to remove HECA off the statute books.  Further information on the future of HECA  and the Government’s proposals to link it to the Green Deal offering is provided in today’s Energy Bill Committee debate (see column 365 onwards).

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London Needs a better Green Deal

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Admin

28 May 2011: Darren Johnson, London Assembly Green Party member, argues that more needs to be done to ensure the Government’s Green Deal programme delivers a step change in improving energy efficiency measures in London’s homes.

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LGA Briefing on the Energy Bill

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Admin

6 May 2011: Local Government Association (LGA) briefing sets out the key issues for local government on the Energy Bill ahead of its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday 10th May 2011.

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Green Deal and Vulnerable and Low Income Households

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Admin

4 May 2011: The Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes and DECC held a workshop to discuss the potential implications of the Green Deal for people considered to be vulnerable and/or on low incomes. The workshop was staged to inform how this detail of the Green Deal mechanism might work. The Green Deal workshop report is available to download from the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes website.

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