It is obvious to see that energy efficiency is moving up the governments agenda, with the the Prime Minister urging Nations to ‘come together and reach agreements that make history’ ahead of the December Copenhagen summit. Pressure has increased worldwide to sharpen energy efficiency legislation and create new incentives. However, despite a frequently positive outlook towards energy efficiency and carbon reduction, organisations often lack the expertise necessary to develop new energy policies and implement sustainable schemes.
Archive for November, 2009
Energy Efficiency is high on the Agenda
Monday, November 30th, 2009Distributed Energy (DE) – Low Zero Carbon energy shcemes
Monday, November 30th, 2009Distributed Energy (DE) is a fundamental part of the design of most low or zero carbon energy schemes. Typically, a developer will commission a scheme, usually with an energy services company (ESCO). The ESCO will build, finance and operate the scheme and assume financial and operational risk. The ESCO agrees to make the required energy services available (usually involving the supply of thermal energy as well as electricity) by means of a long-term contract between it and the developer, or an appointed management company. Under that contract, the ESCO undertakes to offer the energy services to individuals on the site on pre-set terms, including price benchmarking.
Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) projects are moving quickly
Monday, November 30th, 2009Following a recent meeting in London, the UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Milliband said: ‘Today some of the world’s biggest coal consuming nations have shown business as usual on coal won’t do. There;s agreement that we need countries around the world to finance demonstrations, as we are doing in the UK. We need technology co-operation for know-how and capacity building and a financing agreement at Copenhagen which can drive CCS forwards in developing countries.’
Carbon emissions reduce by 3% due to the recession !
Monday, November 30th, 2009The International Energy Agency (IEA) has stated that due to the financial and economic environment this has deferred energy investment, and carbon emissions could have fallen in 2009 by as much as 3% – this is steeper than at any point in the last 40 years.
Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP)
Monday, November 30th, 2009Over the past years the Government has made a well publicised effort through market mechanism to drive energy efficiency in existing domestic properties. Just as in the commercial sector, most of the existing domestic housing stock will be the same in 2050 as it is today (in terms of building fabric), so the 2016 new build zero carbon homes target is at best incidental to our current energy and climate change targets.
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