Our Chief Executive Jade Lewis explores the policy gaps/solutions for delivering healthy buildings in a recent speech for APPGHHB. The most significant gap around government policy and health and well-being is the fact that health and well-being is not viewed as a...
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Construction And Energy – The Need For Joined Up Policy In Delivering Net Zero
For those of you who don’t know the Sustainable Energy Association, we are a membership organisation made up of manufacturers, energy suppliers, housing providers, installers, innovators and other organisations with expertise on energy in buildings. The SEA exists to...
Press release: New report sets out stakeholder advice on designing An Effective Home Upgrade Grant Scheme
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,...
COP26: A Blog From Building Research Establishment (BRE)
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 fuels for electricity, electric and hybrid vehicles...
Sustainable Energy Association Welcomes Long-Awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy
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 £5,000 per household support the...
Heat Decarbonisation and COP26: The Clock is Ticking
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. Global...
‘There is no-one – not energy suppliers nor Government schemes – incentivised to help households be as efficient, as flexible and as low carbon as they can be’
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...
The Complex Issue of Heat Decarbonisation
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 carbon...
COP26: Heat in the built environment is one of the biggest climate problems we face
Heat in the built environment is one of the biggest climate problems we face. For years it has been neglected and now we have to face up to it. The role of buildings is under-valued by society. They provide protection, safety, places to work, live, administer care,...
SEA: Recommendations for a Future Energy Company Obligation
What is the Energy Company Obligation? First introduced in 2013 with the aim of improving the energy efficiency of fuel poor households in Great Britain, ECO requires obligated suppliers to supply households with funding for the retrofit of energy efficiency...
The Long Term Policy Needed In Anticipation Of The Heat And Buildings Strategy
Good morning everyone. The SEA is a membership organisation made up of energy suppliers, manufacturers, installers, housing providers, and other organisations with expertise in energy in buildings. We are committed to achieving our vision, to help create living and...
How do we retrofit healthier homes and places in recovery?
‘How can we ensure that health and wellbeing is at the forefront of the Government’s decision making processes on green retrofitting and that they adopt a more holistic joined-up approach to deliver healthy homes and buildings?’ Firstly, the government and local...