Sustainable Energy Association: New report sets out stakeholder advice on designing An Effective Home Upgrade Grant Scheme The Sustainable Energy Association has today published a report, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, setting out recommendations for…
The Need For Action The UK’s housing stock is amongst the worst in Europe leading to some of the highest levels of fuel poverty on the continent. The Government’s latest fuel poverty statistics show that the number of fuel poor…
The Prime Minister has said his priorities for COP26 are coal, cars, cash and trees, four areas in which the UK is in a leading position relative to other countries. We have a clear target for moving away from fossil…
Today the government has published its plan to decarbonise the way we heat our buildings. This key document sets out proposals to phase out the installation of fossil fuel heating by 2035 and introduce a new funding scheme to provide…
The countdown to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is now well underway with less than two months to go before world leaders are joined by citizens, government representatives and businesses to agree coordinated action on climate change.…
Overseeing energy supply is a story of managing stocks and flows. Take the petrol crisis; stocks in refineries were fine while reports suggest tanker deliveries to garages remained mostly unchanged throughout. So, no actual disruption to flows out to petrol…
With the built environment accounting for some two-fifths of all carbon emissions, it is self-evident that the UK Government’s goals of reaching net-zero by 2050 require a radical transformation in how buildings are heated and powered. One leg of this…
It is universally acknowledged that Britain needs urgently to improve the energy efficiency of its housing stock, long deemed amongst the worst in western Europe. This needs to be done for ecological reasons. For health reasons. For levelling up reasons.…
The 2050 Target Amendment to the 2008 Climate Change Act in 2016, set out the UK’s commitment to a 100% reduction in emissions by 2050. Despite a record decrease in 2020 emissions of 13% from 2019, a sustained reduction in…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, has recently warned that ‘global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in…
