The Mayor of London has launched a £3.6m programme to improve energy efficiency in social housing across the capital, including replacing heating systems. Sadiq Khan said the Retrofit Accelerator for Homes programme would help the city achieve its carbon neutral target by 2030 by helping people improve heating system; speed up the adoption of renewables – particularly heat pumps and solar – and improve building fabric. Local authorities and housing associations will also be able to access expert advice and guidance on large-scale energy efficiency projects. “London’s ageing and energy-inefficient homes are responsible for around one third of the capital’s greenhouse gas emissions and urgentl
Study looked at 91 housing-performance evaluation studies of new housing, covering 826 dwellings Passivhaus homes in Mill Road, Sharnbrook, built by Parrott Construction The energy used for space heating is 2.4 times higher in non-Passivhaus dwellings, a Building Performance Network review has found. Launched at Futurebuild 2020, State of the Nation review: performance evaluation of housing found that the energy performance gap in non-Passivhaus (NPH) dwellings was nearly twice that of Passivhaus (PH) dwellings. The study looked at 91 housing-performance evaluation studies of new housing, covering 826 dwellings, of which 105 were PH and 721 NPH. It found that PH dwellings used 62% less energ
Sunak pledges £800m for research into carbon capture and £100m for heat pump and biomass boilers markets Chancellor Rishi Sunak recognised the importance of accelerating the uptake of low carbon heating systems, and the need for further investment in heat networks in his first Budget last month. Sunak’s headline announcement was a pledge to spend £600m on infrastructure investment. He is planning to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research Plans were announced to freeze the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on electricity, but raise it on gas from April 2022. He also revealing a Green Gas Levy to encourage the develo
