Monthly Archives: January 2011

Salix Finance Newsletter

January 2011:The latest newsletter from Salix Finance highlights carbon savings made by those public sector bodies who have taken on loans. Salix also announce a new funding round bid.

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Richmond schools to run on sun-power

28 January 2011: Three schools in Richmond’s Low Carbon Zone have celebrated the installation of solar panels on their buildings as a result of grants from the council and British Gas. Further news from Richmond here. More information on the ‘My Solar School’ programme by British Gas.

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Carbon focus of London waste plans scrutinised

27 January 2011: The Mayor’s plans to introduce a new waste-based CO2 Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) for London boroughs, as set out in the draft of the October 2010 Municipal Waste Management Strategy for London, was debated at a recent conference in London. Further details on news story here.

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Waste energy from local plant could generate heating to nearly 3,000 homes

27 January 2011: Southwark Council is working with Veolia Environmental Services looking at the possibility of heating nearly three thousand homes across five estates using waste energy from the nearby SELCHP generation plant – further details here.
Detailed information on opportunities to use heat from SELCHP are contained in an energy assessment undertaken for the Canada Water Area Action Plan (AAP). Published in three sections, the full report is available from Southwark’s website here.
Further details of Veolia’s plans for SELCHP are set out in the following Mayor’s planning report (763 Old Kent Road – search for ‘SELCHP’ in the report).

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Mayor’s responses to London Assembly energy and climate change questions

26 January 2011: Questions included funding of the Mayor’s electric vehicle programme; comment by the Mayor on the removal by  government of national indicator targets; building energy efficiency standards; funding of the Mayor’s Low Carbon Zone programme; funding of the Mayor’s climate change funding programmes; and Southwark’s Decent Homes programme.

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Lambeth examine costs of CHP project

26 January 2011: Lambeth Council is investigating the installation and procurement of the ongoing combined heat and power (CHP) project in the Roupell Park estate in Brixton Hill. Read the full news story here.

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Borough presentations at ESCO workshop

20 January 2011: Series of useful presentations on projects in Westminster and Camden, and also the LDA’s DE work and more were made at an Energy Service Companies (ESCO) event held today by the Energy Saving Trust. Presentations are downloadable EST website here.

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Camden Draft Sustainability Plan

20 January 2011: Responses delivered to Camden’s Draft Sustainability Plan 2010 -2020.

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Haringey publishes its first annual carbon report

19 January 2011: Building on the target adopted by Haringey in 2009 to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020 (on a 2005 baseline), the borough has now produced a Carbon Report, “the first of its kind to be produced by a local authority”. The report outlines the scale of carbon emissions in the borough and some of the activities the borough will be leading on to reduce emissions. The carbon report – which is to be updated annually – can be downloaded here.

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Haringey Carbon Report

19 January 2011: Haringey publishes its first annual carbon report

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Typical domestic energy consumption figures

18 January 2011: This factsheet presents Ofgem’s revised consumption figures for typical domestic gas and electricity customers.

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Southwark pulls the plug on Elephant & Castle green energy project

18 January 2011: News story on Southwark Council’s intention to to put on hold its plans for a multi-utility services company (MUSCo) to provide heating, cooling, electricity and communications to developments constructed as part of the Elephant & Castle regeneration. Full story here

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