Recently, I travelled around Cornwall. I visited amazing hotels, beautiful beaches and rugged countryside landscapes. I was not, however, on holiday, but visiting our Local Energy Market (LEM) project, which has installed a range of low carbon energy technologies into the businesses I visited, including the stunning Carbis Bay Hotel and the charismatic Olde House farm and holiday retreat.
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In a set of reports created for Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), experts at Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) found that no single approach to decarbonising the energy system can be applied nationwide, with each local area requiring a unique mix of technologies and networks.
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Grant Wilson and Paul Rowley today published a new paper for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) titled Flexibility in Britain’s Gas Networks.
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However, consumers could find that they are digging deeper into their pockets, as energy companies pass on rising costs on the wholesale international markets.
Lights and heating will stay on after Brexit, National Grid says Read More »
The 1,195 kWh unit forms part of an energy centre being delivered by sustainable energy experts Vital Energi for the 30-acre Paddington Village development, currently under construction at the eastern end of the city centre’s Knowledge Quarter.
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In June, the government committed to a target for the UK to be net-zero for carbon by 2050. Many local authorities (a number which increases by the week) have set even shorter targets, some seeking to achieve net-zero decades ahead of the remainder of the UK.
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In the upward trajectory towards a low carbon world and electrification of transport in particular, there is one country that is on a stellar pathway, and a long way ahead of everyone else – Norway. “Norway envy” is something that is often intimated by professionals in the energy sector, caused by virtually zero carbon energy generation from their enormous hydro-electric power resources and that most of their building heat is derived from this lovely clean electricity as well!
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Leep’s investment in an IGT licence sees the company able to provide developers and contractors with a full multi-utility adoption offering across all utilities on new developments.
Leep Utilities granted IGT licence Read More »
New Scientist has released details that it has seen a leaked report warning that the move to using hydrogen to heat homes risks inadvertently releasing harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution in towns and cities.
Leaked DEFRA report says net zero goal may increase air pollution Read More »
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) recent announcement of £40m funding for seven district heating schemes is welcome news. This is part of the government’s £320m Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP).
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