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A future-ready energy system: four key technologies for your business
…electric company cars can help a business reduce its carbon footprint straight away. 3. HEAT PUMPS: ELECTRIFY YOUR HEATING With non-domestic buildings accounting for nearly 1/5 of the UK’s carbon emissions1, electrifying and…
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: A multi-million-pound geothermal heating and cooling system
…circulated using four new electric ground-source and air-source heat pumps. The system will also capture and recirculate heat that would otherwise have been wasted. The first phase of the energy…
AI for good: Google unveils raft of new tech schemes for sustainability
…incentives when people search for terms like “heat pumps” or “air conditioning.” Lastly, a new feature in Google Earth has been introduced to make it easier for planners to determine…
UK significantly off-track to meet household energy goals
…retrofits for 1.1 million homes by 2030. The research, carried out by Frontier Economics, also warns that 1.5 million homes need to be fitted with heat pumps and a further…
Local opposition forces relocation of UK’s hydrogen village trials
…Government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy, published in 2021, delayed a formal and strategic decision on the role of hydrogen in domestic heating until 2026 at the earliest. Ministers stated that…
UK Government remains cautious as it consults on future of hydrogen in heating
…are likely to be industrial. They noted that, while solutions such as heat pumps are suitable for most British homes, sectors such as industrial manufacturing and shipping will have fewer…
‘Opted for the least ambitious option’: Government lambasted over Future Homes consultation
…seeks views on the role, if any, that gas and hydrogen-ready boilers could play in the new framework, but expects heat pumps, electrification and district heat networks to be the…
From heat pump innovations to regenerative agriculture partnerships: The sustainability success stories of the week
…Garden Village, Hampshire. The organisations claim the water-source system will emit 90% less carbon emissions than a gas boiler and 50% less than air-source heat pumps. It will also save…
Hydrogen levy on home energy bills to be shelved
…need all of them”. She called for the deployment of heat pumps “as quickly as humanly possible” while research and testing on hydrogen heating continues. In this case, there would…
‘A mixed bag on net-zero’: How did the green economy react to the Autumn Statement?
…for the local communities, speeding up grid connections and the proposed planning changes for heat pumps and electric vehicle infrastructure are all positive steps taken today. These measures will help…
Four top tips for supercharging your organisation’s energy efficiency strategy
…also asked about the recent trials of heating and cooling systems that capture waste heat from data centres and use it to heat leisure centres struggling with high energy bills….
edie launches new guide to heat decarbonisation
…Why is net-zero carbon heating important? What are the different forms of net-zero carbon heating? What are the business benefits of net-zero carbon heating? edie has partnered with Centrica Business…
Report: Current technologies can halve built environment emissions
…cooling using heat pumps, fitting high-efficiency insulation, and installing district heating facilities. The report proposes three currently cost-effective solutions that can collectively abate 20% of embodied emissions including increasing the…
Heat reuse innovations and Henry Dimbleby’s food fund: The sustainability success stories of the week
…this week. ENERGY: Warsaw eyes metro heat reuse to cut emissions Team edie have covered several innovative heat technology stories since the new year, including a British project taking waste…
Government shirks request to disclose carbon impact of net-zero policy rollbacks
…diesel cars; compelling landlords to improve building energy efficiency and mandating a shift from fossil fuel boilers to heat pumps in homes. The Committee requested “clarity on how the Government…
National Grid: UK not preparing to scale CCS or low-carbon heat quickly enough
…scenario. One example is residential heat pumps. Installation rates will need to hit up to 1.5 million units per year by the end of the decade if the UK is…
British manufacturers bag £24m of government funding for energy efficiency and cleantech
…£4.4m to implement new systems at its site in east London, including a heat recovery system and a more efficient water heating system. Britvic has stated that the investment, which…
Bristol City Council launches £750m clean energy plan
Last year, Bristol City Council launched a city-wide £1bn investment plan, Bristol City Leap, in collaboration with Ameresco and its subcontractor Vattenfall Heat UK, to decarbonise heat and buildings, and…
Embracing the lasting value of decarbonised business
…public buildings across the city, enabled by a £27m PSDS award. The funding has unlocked the delivery of low carbon heating such as heat pumps and other energy efficiency measures…
UK Government ‘not properly discussing’ wind-down of gas networks as heat goes electric
…distribution networks need to be shrunk or shut down. At present, some 23 million of the UK’s 25 million homes use gas boilers for heating and hot water. These will…
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