Horizon House, the Environment Agency’s new corporate office in Bristol, was recently awarded the highest ever BREEAM score for an office in the UK. It perfectly illustrates a big win for the building’s occupiers: a 10% saving in running costs due to being in a sustainable office building. Until you can occupy a building like that, there are other money-saving suggestions you can implement from a commercial EPC.
If the Government’s Pay As You Save scheme gets through parliament, it could help fund the massive energy efficient home improvements UK homes will need in order to achieve lower CO2 emissions. However, cutting independent EPC assessors out of the process could be a major blunder — particularly if we end up with salespeople in their place…
Renewables just got a lot more interesting.
From April this year, a scheme will be launched that encourages British homes and small businesses to generate renewable electricity by paying you to produce it.
That means paying you for every unit you produce, up to 5 MWh a year — even what you use yourself.
It makes £0 energy [...]
Commercial EPC compliance is amazingly low, as shown by NHER research — most agents simply don’t realise the buck stops with them. Now, fast-track changes to the EPBD threaten fines worth avoiding and Trading Standards scrutiny you’d be better off without. At least there’s more than twenty seconds to comply…
The Energy Saving Trust kicks off 2010 by rolling out the Boiler Scrappage Scheme announced in the pre-budget report. It aims to improve Britain’s energy efficiency, to save people’s energy bills, and boost the gas fitting and boiler manufacturing industries. Three birds—one stone.
The scheme is not perfect, though: it missed a chance to make better use of EPC assessors, and it could even be open to a touch of abuse. All in all, is the Boiler Scrappage Scheme brilliant or flawed?
How’s this for an unexpected Christmas present: lower heating bills for life?
That’s what residents of Rawnsley House in Bristol are getting. The entire block of flats is being clad with heat-saving solid wall insulation – and it’s arriving just in time for the coldest months of the year. Our EPC show how valuable this Christmas [...]
If the 98 world leaders were to get to the Danish capital a few days early and have a nose around their host country, they’d pick up a large number of clues as to what they could be doing already to cut CO². Here’s my rundown of five “Danish Lessons” our Copenhagen delegates could learn from the the country hosting the summit.