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What the renewable energy strategy and low carbon transition plan mean for your home

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 20th July 2009 at 3:01 pm

What the renewable energy strategy and low carbon transition plan mean for your home

Households are expected to make cuts in their carbon emissions of 29% by 2020 according to the Government's Low Carbon Transition Plan, announced by Ed Miliband last week (houses currently emit more than a third of the UK's carbon). This will be done through a combination of cutting the amount o…

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Whole house approach to energy efficiency needed

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 12th October 2009 at 4:32 pm

Whole house approach to energy efficiency needed

Government must make a major shift in policy to transform the energy efficiency of our residential housing stock according to the Committee on Climate Change's first annual report. A whole house, street by street approach in which  households are offered an energy audit, with a follow up pac…

Posted in: Energy efficiency


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