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Transport, energy and urban form. Aukland, 16 November 2012
Posted on: 13 March 2013
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This event highlighted research over the last ten years into urban form, transport behaviours, and our ideas of liveable settlements. Four presentations of selections of this research addressed the overall theme of how we could transition to sustainability given the ways we currently appear to want to live and travel.
Building new nuclear: The challenges ahead
Posted on: 11 March 2013
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The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee has published the findings of its inquiry which sought to investigate the feasibility of delivering on the Government’s timetable for building a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain and the potential barriers to delivering new nuclear power stations more generally.
Training for rebuilding Europe: Retrofitting buildings, training and improved skills, and financing energy efficiency in buildings
Posted on: 1 March 2013
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Finding ways to improve the energy efficiency of residential properties, improving skills and financing retrofit projects is the focus of the TRAINREBUILD manual which is now available in both electronic and printed format. The guidance note has been produced by RICS with support from the TRAINREBUILD consortium and is the outcome of a two years project supported by the EU Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).
Energy from waste: A guide to the debate
Posted on: 28 February 2013
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This guide is relevant to those wishing to engage in the debate about energy recovery, including members of the public; waste and planning officials in local government; elected members of local and national government; the waste management industry; energy intensive industries; energy companies; developers and technology providers; non-governmental organisations; and those looking to finance energy from waste projects.
Re-energising Europe: Putting the EU on track for 100% renewable energy
Posted on: 15 February 2013
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WWF has launched a new report which shows where Europe needs to be by 2030 in order to reach a fully renewable energy system by 2050. It is comes just as the European Commission is beginning to consider post-2020 climate and energy plans.
Nearer to Zero: Planning for zero carbon homes from 2016
Posted on: 14 February 2013
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How can planners and the house building industry work more closely together to ensure the carbon emissions from energy use in new housing is nearer to the zero carbon target? The Zero Carbon Hub and the Home Builders Federation are working together on a series of events focusing on this question. Nearer to Zero has been organization a series of conferences to enable delegates to highlight their concerns about the technical and financial challenges of delivering zero carbon housing, the need for more clearly defined standards and more joined- up regulatory regimes and the impacts of planning reform. Presentations from past events are available online, together with details of forthcoming events.
Green Digital Charter Toolkit
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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The NiCE (Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency) project has launched the Green Digital Toolkit to all cities. The Toolkit is an online platform designed to provide cities with a central resource for city-level actions towards the Green Digital Charter. It indeed enables cities to browse and share activities information and tools, exchange with each other, monitor the status in the Charter implementation and compare it with against the Covenant of Mayors reporting procedures.
Green Deal assessment tools
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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BRE has released two new versions of the green deal assessment tools it has developed for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The tools enable qualified green deal assessors to evaluate the energy savings resulting from the installation of one or more efficiency measures and to create and lodge reports on the national registry. The tool for dwellings is based on the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP). The green deal variant, Green Deal Occupancy Assessment Tool, can be used for carrying out an occupancy assessment following the creation of an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The report generated can then be used to form the basis of an agreement between a householder and green deal provider on the efficiency measures to be implemented. A similar tool can be downloaded for non-domestic buildings and is the only tool currently available for carrying out assessments in commercial premises.
Nordic energy technology perspectives: Pathways to a carbon neutral energy future
Posted on: 12 February 2013
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The Nordic region can become carbon-neutral by 2050 through big changes in its energy sector, including a ten-fold increase in wind generation, an end to all use of coal and significant electrification of transport, the International Energy Agency reports in the first regional edition of its flagship technology publication, Energy Technology Perspectives.
Evaluation of investment in solar energy
Posted on: 12 February 2013
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This research presents a novel model for the valuation of investments in PV systems for buildings.
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