Improved energy efficiency in the UK has helped offset low carbon policy costs on energy bills and reduced emissions according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which found householders paid £115 less per year for their energy last year than in 2008 when the Climate Change Act was passed. While low carbon policies added around…
Is there an industry left to support new Green Deal Finance? Yes, but only just. The chart shows that for over 2 years there were people and companies investing time and money to become involved in Green Deal, but Green Deal was just an all encompassing title for our domestic renewables sector. The hope was for…
Renewables’ share of electricity generation increased from 23.6 per cent in 2015 Q3 to 25.0 per cent in 2016 Q3. However, compared to 2016 Q2, renewables’ share was 0.2 percentage points lower. The increased share on a year earlier reflects the increase in renewables generation in addition to a decrease (1.2 per cent) in total…
A Contract for Difference (CFD) is a private law contract between a low carbon electricity generator and the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), a government-owned company, introduced as part of the now implemented Electricity Market Reform (EMR) programme A generator party to a CFD is paid the difference between the ‘strike price’ – a price…
One of the most frequently asked questions about an Air Source Heat Pump is whether it is able to heat your home properly, how do you know if you have the right size? As an auditor we do some calculations to make sure it is capable of heating the property and that it won’t have…
“I don’t know if I have an EPC” is something I regularly hear. It is really easy to find out, you just need the address details to search the national database of Energy Performance Certificates. But how do you do it? Step one Go to the EPC Register Step two Select “Retrieve Report Using Property…
