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Tag Archives: Mayor
London – What Future for CHP and District Heating?
November 2011: Slides from a recent presentation made by Peter North, Senior Manager of the GLA’s Sustainable Energy Team. Includes information on the GLA’s new Decentralised Energy Project Delivery Unit (DEPDU). Further information on London’s DE plans can be found in Chapter 4 – Securing a Low Carbon Energy Supply for London – of the Mayor’s recent Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Strategy, as well as in the 2009 report ‘Powering Ahead‘.
Fuel poverty fears in East London as “Mayor’s scheme stalls”
24 November 2011: News release from London Assembly member John Biggs: “Mayor Boris Johnson has been criticised for failing to deliver on his flagship policy to reduce fuel bills in East London. As local residents face huge energy price hikes this winter, new figures reveal that the Mayor’s promise to insulate 200,000 home across London has flopped…At the current rate it will take 23 years to ‘green’ 200,000 homes as promised. Even then this would be just a fraction of the 3.4 million homes in the capital. Full story here. Further information on the Mayor’s RE:NEW programme here.
Mayor’s £20,000 Low Carbon Prize
24 November 2011: Press release announcing details of the Mayor’s £20,000 prize designed to help to reduce carbon emissions from London’s buildings. The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates at Further and Higher Education Institutions in London. “The Mayor hopes the winning entries could in the future be used to help drive investment specifically in building retrofitting activity, which could deliver up to 80 per cent of the 14,000 low carbon jobs that City Hall figures estimate could be created each year, and two thirds of the £721 million of low carbon economic activity per year up until 2025.” Further details here.
The London Low Carbon Market Snapshot 2011
November 2011: Figures compiled by INNOVAS for a report commissioned by the Mayor, has “examined in detail for the first time, the health of the low carbon and environmental goods and services sector in London during 2009-2010. It reveals that the sector grew by over four per cent a year, was supporting 9,000 companies employing 160,000 people and importantly, is set to grow further.” Only a summary of the report has been so far released (linked above). Previous work in this area on ‘Green Jobs’ in London can be seen here.
London’s Energy & Climate Strategy Released
November 2011: After close to two years consultation, London’s Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Strategy was released with little fanfare by the Mayor last week. Also published at the same time were London’s Water Strategy and London’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.
The Energy Strategy provides a detailed account of energy consumption and generation in London, along with their associated projected CO2 emissions, and will be examined here in further detail in some future posts very shortly.
London’s Decentralised Energy Programme Delivery Unit
November 2011: The GLA have appointed engineering consultants Arup to provide services to support the development of decentralised energy (DE) schemes in London, through the provision of technical, commercial and financial advisory support.
The contract with Arup runs from September 2011 to August 2014 and will resource a new Decentralised Energy Programme Delivery Unit (DEPDU). Further information on the previous round of this programme www.londonheatmap.org
The Mayor’s Carbon Prize
November 2011: Some early detail on the Mayor’s forthcoming Carbon Prize, anticipated to be launched in November 2011, with a winner announced in January 2012. The competition will be open to all undergraduates, postgraduates (taught and research) and research PhD students in London and will be judged by a panel of academics. The winner(s) will receive funding to develop their idea(s), and promotional support by the Mayor.
Energy and Climate Questions to the Mayor
October 2011: This month the Mayor answered London Assembly questions in relation to: a Decent Homes successor standard; the level of interest in the London Energy Efficiency Fund; GLA buildings Energy reduction targets; Green Deal finance and Green Deal lobbying; Fuel Poverty; the Mayor’s support to the Warm Homes Amendment; Funding of waste to energy projects and additional detail on waste to energy schemes and three questions on AD: Anaerobic Digesters (1), Anaerobic Digesters (2) and Anaerobic Digesters (3)
Previous questions to the Mayor can be found here.
“Energy Retrofit Will Save Billions”
14 October 2011: Speaking at the CBI London Annual Dinner, the Mayor laid out the economic and environmental opportunities for private sector businesses if they commit to retrofitting their premises and invest in retrofitting goods and services. The news release states that the “Mayor has funded RE:NEW, a homes energy efficiency programme which is currently retrofitting 55,000 homes across the capital by May 2012. In addition, his RE:FIT programme is set to help hundreds of public sector buildings retrofit their premises using a hassle-free template that guarantees money-back on the capital investment from predicted energy savings. The Mayor has also diverted public money into the London Green Fund which is leveraging in hundreds of millions in private sector money to provide cheap loans for public organisations enabling them to access upfront money for retrofitting. The 42 city buildings that trialled RE:FIT saw savings of up to 40 per cent in energy usage and collectively are saving the city one million pounds a year off energy bills.”
Read the full news release here.
London Low Carbon Skills and Employment project
October 2011: Papers presented to the GLA Investment and Performance Board
Papers can all be downloaded at the following Board meeting agenda weblink (or individually via links below):
An outline paper for the Low Carbon Skills and Employment ESF Project is available along with a Investment Decision application
“The purpose of this paper is to seek agreement for the GLA to provide £484,000 to be matched £:£ by ESF [European Social Fund] to deliver either [sic] a £968,000 Low Carbon Skills and Employment project. The project will aim to identify suitable job opportunities arising from the growth in the low carbon economy in London and to support workless Londoners into sustained employment for a minimum of 52 out of 64 weeks in this sector.”
A more detailed Concept Paper is also provided which highlights that this “project builds upon the Retrofit Employer Accord Pilot project and aims to maximise opportunities arising from the RE:FIT, RE:NEW programmes as well as growth across the Low Carbon sector.”
London Hydrogen Action Plan Update
October 2011: The latest details on work to progress the Mayor’s Hydrogen Action Plan have just been released, with £115,000 approved by the GLA for the London Hydrogen Partnership’s 2011-12 work programme.
Further information on the London Hydrogen Partnership’s work can be found on their website.
New Renewable Electricity Stats for London
30 September 2011: DECC have just released their annual regional breakdown of renewable electricity statistics, providing further detail to the renewable CHP chapter of DECC’s annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics, published in July of this year. (Note – this only refers to ‘renewable electricity’ and not ‘renewable energy’ which would include the contribution of renewables to heating and transport fuels also – the UK’s 2020 target is in relation to renewable energy).
The statistics for London indicate:
- 10 sites in London are indicated under the ‘wind and wave’ category to a total of 3.7 MWe. Virtually all of this capacity must be wind, and the vast proportion of it attributable to a single scheme – the Ford Dagenham wind turbine project.
- 6 schemes are classed under ‘other biomass’ a total of 110.6 MWe (note – these statistics only refer to ‘renewable electricity’ and not ‘renewable energy’, hence it does not include biomass heat-only schemes in London or elsewhere). The majority of this capacity must be from biogas to electricity schemes at Thames Water sewage waste water treatment plants, and also a Thames Water ‘sludge powered’ generator, and a number of landfill gas schemes.
- And then there are 1,044 solar PV schemes operating in London – to a total of 2.8MWe generation capacity (on PV installations in London see here for further detail).
- London has the lowest total overall renewable electricity output of all regions at 385GWh – exactly the same amount generated as in 2009 (see DECC Energy Trends September 2010 for details)
- The Mayor will shortly be issuing a detailed study on the potential for decentrailsed energy in London, including the use of renewable energy resources.
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