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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).
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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Tagged Data, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Poverty, Funding, Housing
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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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Tagged Data, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Poverty, Housing
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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.
The UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
16 December 2010: Defra’s UKPTR dataset 2009 provides emission data and other information in relation to a variety of different industrial sites currently operating across the UK.
TfL Environment Report 2010
December 2010: Transport for London have published their latest annual environment report, providing a detailed account of the impact of London’s transport sector on CO2 emissions, air quality, noise and other key areas.
The report sets out that ‘Ground based transport’ makes up 22% of London total CO2 emissions (total emissions being 44.7 million tonnes of CO2 in 2008).
Lights Left On
1 December 2010: London Assembly Scoping Paper on the impacts of lights being left on in workplaces and transcript of an oral evidence session on this issue with the Environment Committee from experts including the Carbon Trust.
Low Carbon London
28 November 2010: Full submission proforma to Ofgem by EDF Energy for their bid into the Low Carbon Networks Fund for its Low Carbon London project. The project is looking to develop “a new approach to distribution network management to meet growing demand from emerging low carbon technologies such as electric vehicles, heat pumps and distributed generation. It will focus on carbon reduction targets and the need to reduce dependency on conventional reinforcement.” Updates to the project are posted by Ofgem here.
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Tagged Distribution, Smart Grid, Smart Metering, UK Power Networks
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Planning for Climate Change Guidance for LAs
November 2010: The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) along with a long list of supporting organisations have issued guidance and model policies for local authorities who wish to advance policies to tackle climate change. It draws explicitly on the Government’s draft Planning Policy Statement (PPS) on climate and energy, Consultation on a Planning Policy Statement: Planning for a Low Carbon Future in a Changing Climate, published in March 2010, and it “seeks to reflect the wide-ranging consensus which that document commanded.”
Community energy: planning, development and delivery
November 2010: CHPA, TCPA and LDA Design guide around practical guidance on bringing forward community energy projects. It is aimed at everyone from community groups and local authorities, through to professionals and developers.
Carbon footprint of London’s Local Authority Procurement
November 2010: London Councils’ Capital Ambition project has funded a groundbreaking project that has identified how to reduce the carbon footprint of London’s £8 billion public procurement. The three year project, delivered by Trucost has evaluated 90% of suppliers to London local authorities, a total of over 9,000 suppliers. 29 London Borough Councils, the GLA, City of London and London’s Fire and Emergency Planning Authority have taken part in this project and have been provided with reports that detail their spend, their most carbon-intensive suppliers and provides a modelling tool specific to the authority to that details how changes to carbon use in suppliers will impact their overall supply-chain carbon use.