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Heat pumps are growing in importance as energy efficient building design moves up the building services sector's agenda(10/02/2010)
Heat pumps use electricity to extract heat from the environment, usually from the ground or the air. More than three quarters of the energy produced by the heat pump is available free from a sustainable, renewable source. Unlike other sources of renewable energy like wind and solar, the heat in the ground or the air is always available for use. Although they are not carbon neutral (after all, they are powered by electricity), heat pumps typically generate three or four times the energy used to drive the system, making them exceptionally energy efficient and extremely cost effective. Their environmental pay-offs are particularly impressive. They emit no CO2 at point of use so make less contribution to global warming than fossil fuel based heating. They are also tremendously energy eff... [read full article]
OFTEC welcomes the move to include new bio-liquid heating fuel within the consultation paper for the RHI(08/02/2010)
The UK’s 1.4 million homes currently heated by oil could be able to receive incentive payments for switching to a new bio-liquid heating fuel. The Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC) believes that these plans are vital to encourage consumer take-up. OFTEC was instrumental in the successful campaign to include the option of using blends of bio liquids to heat buildings in the consultation paper for the proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which was issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) earlier this month. Under the proposed RHI, homes and other buildings using renewable heat technologies will qualify for regular incentive payments from OFGEM for up to 20 years after installation. For some technologies payments could be as high as £1,400 per annum for an... [read full article]
Renewable Energy Strategy may force more rural households into fuel poverty(18/08/2009)
Calor, which supplies liquefied petroleum gas to 500,000 households in country areas not on mains gas, said it was alarmed by Ministers’ backing for what amounted to a “country heating tax”. The Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy will penalise families living in the countryside and force many more rural households into fuel poverty. This would add £250 to £4001 to the average energy bill for rural households using heating oil, solid fuel, electricity or LPG. Paul Blacklock, the company’s head of strategy and corporate affairs, said: “Calor fully supports the Government's climate change targets for CO2 emission reduction and the associated timelines. However, where we differ is on the practicalities of how the Government is seeking to achieve CO2 emission reductions - especially i... [read full article]
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