Tag Archives: RE:NEW

RE:NEW reaches Norbury and Upper Norwood

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Admin

3 October 2011: The RE:NEW Home Energy Efficiency scheme is now operating in Norbury and Upper Norwood, where residents can arrange a free visit to receive energy efficiency advice from a home energy expert.  Further information can be found on the following news release as well as by calling Croydon RE:NEW  on 0800 652 7206.

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RE:NEW to roll out across nine more London boroughs

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Admin

27 September 2011: The Mayor has announced today that homes in specific areas in Wandsworth, Croydon, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Hounslow are the next to benefit from the RE:NEW energy efficiency programme.  To find out if you are in an area which is getting the RE:NEW treatment go to the postcode search facility here.

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Energy and Climate Questions to the Mayor

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Admin

September 2011: This month the Mayor answered London Assembly questions in relation to: an estimate of the number of Londoners in fuel poverty in April 2012; the number of homes benefiting from the RE:NEW programme in each London borough; future funding of RE:NEW; an update on the Mayor’s carbon reduction targets; carbon savings associated with the RE:NEW programme; the Green Enterprise District; lighting at London tube stations; carbon emissions from the constituent organisations of the GLA; RE:NEW loans; the number of HCA funded homes built and their Code for Sustainable Homes rating and progress of RE: NEW for 2011/2012.

Previous questions to the Mayor can be found here.

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Latest funding details on RE:NEW and RE:CONNECT

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Admin

8 September 2011: Details have just been released by the GLA of the funding to two key Mayoral low carbon activities, RE:NEW (improving the energy efficiency of homes) and RE:CONNECT (supporting the roll out of 10 Low Carbon Zones in London). Also recently released are details of the ODA funding to the GLA to roll-out  retrofit projects RE:NEW and RE:FIT across the Olympic boroughs. This is to compensate for shortfall in CO2 emissions as a result of the key renewable feature of the Olympics – a wind turbine – failing to go ahead. The ODA are hence allowing funding of £1.7m to retrofit homes and schools within the host boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest. The primary objective of the project is to deliver 1,300 tonnes of CO2 savings per annum through energy efficiency measures persisting for a lifetime of 10 years.

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Mayor’s home energy programme slashed by three quarters

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Admin

August 2011: News release from London Assembly Member Murad Qureshi responding to the Mayor’s RE:NEW programme announcement which states:
“In 2009 the mayor promised his programme would treat 200,000 homes with easy energy efficiency measures like low energy lightbulbs, and offer advice and support for more complex things like roof insulation, but the new target is just 55,000 homes – or a mere 1.7% of London’s 3.3 million homes.” Full news release here.

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Mayor Announces next phase of RE:NEW

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Admin

4 August 2011: The Mayor has today announced the next phase of the RE:NEW home energy efficiency programme.  The scheme is to be provided to 55,000 homes in specific areas across the capital between now and May 2012 with homes in parts of Barking and Dagenham, Hackney, Lewisham and Waltham Forest being the first to receive this benefit.

To find out if your home might be within an area, check the files attached below to search for your street name. If your street is on the list you can make a booking online or by calling 0800 978 8332.

Further information on the roll-out of RE:NEW across London is here.
Key points from the press release are as follows:

  • RE:NEW is funded by the Mayor and all 32 London boroughs have signed as partners in the scheme, which is being delivered in partnership with London Councils and the Energy Saving Trust. Barking & Dagenham, Hackney and Waltham Forest, with appointed contractor, London Warm Zone, and Lewisham with appointed contractor, Osborne Energy, are the first to roll out RE:NEW. The focus in these areas will be on providing energy monitors and stand by switches.
  • The RE:NEW offer involves a full home energy survey carried out by a qualified home energy advisor, which takes roughly 90 minutes to do. Residents will then get a tailor-made energy saving report once the visit is complete and have a range of free energy saving measures installed.
  • At the same time as improving energy efficiency, RE:NEW aims to reduce fuel poverty in London and each household will be offered a benefits check to ensure residents are claiming all of the benefits and grants they are entitled to.
  • RE:NEW is not an ‘on-demand’ service and is being delivered on an area by area basis because trials showed this approach resulted in more cost-effective and higher take up, helping to ensure that the city’s ambitious targets can be met. It has been designed to be as easy as possible for residents.
  • The aim is to attain the funding to expand the programme to 200,000 homes by the end of 2012 and 1.2 million homes by 2015. This will be subject to additional funding being secured principally through the Government’s ‘Green Deal’.
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Energy and Climate Questions to the Mayor

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Admin

July 2011: This month the Mayor answered London Assembly questions in relation to energy efficiency funding of Mayoral programmes RE:NEW and RE:FIT; an update on the forthcoming Renewable Energy Capacity study; the number of solar panels installed on London Underground properties; the amount of carbon emitted by the lights at Piccadilly Circus; and whether the New Bus for London meets the ‘Low Carbon Bus’ standard.

Previous questions to the Mayor can be found here.

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Mayoral submission to the Energy Bill

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin

June 2011: Memorandum submitted by the Mayor of London and London Councils to the Committee stage of the Energy Bill.

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London housing makes reducing fuel poverty a challenge

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin

22 June 2011: The London Assembly’s Health and Public Services Committee conducted an oral evidence session today into their inquiry on the causes and effect of fuel poverty in London. The Committee heard that insulating homes is particularly challenging in London because properties tend to be older, with solid walls and are often divided into flats. The Mayor’s current energy efficiency RE:NEW programme is helping boroughs address fuel poverty, but its funding ends next year. Further information on the committee’s fuel poverty inquiry, and also a webast of the evidence session available here.

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Mayoral Update on RE:NEW programme

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin

22 June 2011: Speaking today at the BASE London Conference the Mayor provided an update on the RE:NEW programme stating a further £6 million will be invested in RE:NEW (announced earlier this year) to retrofit 55,000 more homes across London by May 2012 and “subject to leverage of additional funding a further 200,000 homes are to retrofitted by the end of 2012, which is the Mayor’s target under RE:NEW.

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Updated RE:NEW Manual

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Admin

June 2011: The GLA have produced an updated manual on the implementation of the Mayor’s major home energy efficiency programme for London, RE:NEW (Note: the Annexes to the manual available at the above link are over 50MB in size).

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Future of the London Development Agency’s Environment Work

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Admin

6 April 2011: Transcript of oral evidence given to the London Assembly’s Environment Committee (agenda item 5) by the Mayor’s Advisor on the Environment which provides a useful – and detailed – update on a number of energy efficiency programmes currently being delivered by the LDA including the Green 500, RE:NEW and RE:FIT.

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