The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported this week on the best ways to upgrade and improve older and more architecturally interesting properties – with underfloor heating being one of the best ways to make an older building cosy without ruining any of the original features. Although many of the properties built in the 1970s and 1980s [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Redeo Australian engineers have been pushing for their country to invest more in one of the forms of renewable energy with the most potential – geothermal energy. Geothermal energy as a concept dates from the ancient world – unsurprisingly the Romans made much of it when settling in areas with hot springs. Then, [...]
Continue Reading →With the government keen to encourage more “eco-towns” and developments of eco-homes, it is time that many Britons began to assess the advantages of living in one of these more energy-efficient properties. Here’s a list of 10 reasons why the environmentally-conscious householder should consider moving to an eco-home: Lower Bills. Possibly the greatest advantage of [...]
Continue Reading →A boom in British sea power is likely this decade, according to the renewable energy industry body, Renewable UK. The organisation has recently said that it believes the sea-powered renewable energy sector will generate some 15,000 new jobs by 2021, as part of a £3.7 billion industry. With renewable energy one of the great energy [...]
Continue Reading →We have written before about ground source heat pumps and their incredible energy efficiency, so it is always good to see more modern developments making use of this excellent green technology in concert with underfloor heating. A new social housing estate outside of Pontefract, West Yorkshire has been installing ground source heat pumps in order [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: brians101 Renewable energy policies are not to blame for soaring energy costs, the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said last week. Instead, the ongoing increase in wholesale and retail gas prices are behind bigger bills, it argued, defending policies aimed at encouraging the use of renewable energy sources and energy-efficient forms of [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Oxymoronical Underfloor heating is the best way to ensure that householders derive the benefit from ground source heat pumps – the next big thing in energy-efficient heat generation. Experts believe that if the conditions are right then a geothermal heat pump can save a household some £480 a year in energy bills, [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever fancied going on holiday in a UFO? Or maybe a relaxing break in a tree-house is more to your liking? Either way, an award-winning innovative hotel in the Swedish forest has both bases covered. Nestling in thick woods near the Lule River, “the UFO” resembles a crash-landed flying saucer and is one [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Martin Lopatka The Environment Agency published its first performance league table for energy efficiency among businesses and public sector organisations this week, as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficient Scheme. There are some 1,301 different businesses and organisations taking part in the scheme, and the league table ranks them in [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: mueritz A government minister stressed the Coalition’s commitment to renewable energy this week during a meeting with providers in Bristol. Junior minister for the Department for Energy and Climate Change Charles Hendry said that the government wished to support renewable energy companies in the long-term, saying: “We’ve got to be clear that we [...]
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