Monthly Archives: January 2011

Breakdown of Domestic Energy Costs

18 January 2011: Ofgem factsheet –  Household energy bills explained

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Housing and Health

15 January 2011: Briefing note by the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) looking at the impact of poor housing on health and examines the implications for housing policy.

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Fuel Poverty Statistics for London

15 January 2011: National Energy Action (NEA) have produced a useful summary in their press pack of key fuel poverty issues, including a regional breakdown – including that for London – of  Excess Winter Mortality Statistics.

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Lowest delivery of Warm Front grants to Londoners

15 January 2011: DECC’s publication of the Warm Front Annual Report for 2009-10 highlights the low level of delivery – the lowest in the country – of the programme’s insulation and heating improvement grants to London. For further information download the DECC report here.

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Brent School Energy Project

15 January 2011: Brent Council is funding a pilot Whole School Approach energy saving project in Brent. The Whole School Approach is an educational programme aimed at involving the whole school community including pupils, teachers, site managers, bursars and head teachers to help reduce the carbon footprint of a school. Further information here.

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RESTATS

January 2011: DECC website holding statistical data on renewable energy projects across the UK.

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London Development Database

January 2011: The LDD records the progress of planning permissions in the Greater London area
as part of the process of monitoring the Mayor’s ‘ London Plan’.

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London Datastore

January 2011: Greater London Authority site providing free access to a number of useful data sets.
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DECC CHP schemes database

January 2011:Regional search facility which helps provide data on combined heat and power (CHP) plant operating in London. Inclusion on the database by CHP operators is voluntary – hence not all 200 or so schemes reported as being in London are included (200 refers to the aggregate figure identified in DECC’s Energy Trends regional CHP article as being located in London – see September 2010 item below).

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Warm Front Annual Report for 2009-10

January 2011: Highlights the low level of delivery – the lowest in the country – of the Warm Front programme’s insulation and heating improvement grants to London.

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DECC release on Home Insulation Levels in Great Britain

January 2011: A relatively new set of what DECC call ‘experimental statistics’ on the number of homes in Great Britain with Cavity Wall Insulation and Loft Insulation. Unfortunately not broken down regionally as yet.

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Ealing slick at cooking oil recycling

7 January 2011: An Ealing Council recycling centre is top of the tables for waste cooking oil collection. Greenford Recycling Centre has collected the most cooking oil for recycling in London, and the second highest volume in the country. Just one litre of used cooking oil can be converted into a new green fuel called LF100 to produce enough clean electricity to make 240 cups of tea. The total amount collected in Ealing is enough to power eight homes for a year or an energy-saving 20W light bulb for each Ealing resident for five and a half hours.

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