Entries for January 2010

British Gas has picked 14 local communities to take part in a £2m trial of community-scale microgeneration and energy efficiency technologies

Every home in Scotland should be provided with free loft and cavity wall insulation, as part of a Scotland-wide package of measures to make all homes low carbon

The UK will need a new discipline of “building engineering physics” if it is to turn around its buildings’ dependence on fossil energy,

Houses on stilts, floating communities and returning urban areas to saltmarsh are radical approaches to tackling the threat of flooding, according to a study

Seven district councils in North Yorkshire, and the county council, have called for a wide range of measures to promote energy efficiency, including a five year programme to insulate every school and hospital

The call for an international baseline measureable standard which provides a common language for measuring greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency of buildings is growing

The impact of freezing temperatures is very easy to see in the UK’s leaky and inefficient housing stock

The Commission has sent a reasoned opinion – part of its enforcement process – to the UK, Portugal, Slovakia and Finland for failure to communicate the full transposition of the 2004 Directive on the promotion of cogeneration

The Commission has sent a reasoned opinion – part of its enforcement process – to the UK, Portugal, Slovakia and Finland for failure to communicate the full transposition of the 2004 Directive on the promotion of cogeneration

Andy Walder, director of the National Construction College, on the importance of environmental best practice and sustainable building solutions

The European Commission has been consulting on how to achieve greener and socially-inclusive growth within Europe

Conservative MP Tim Yeo, chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, has called for an ambitious “street-by-street programme of energy saving measures for households”

The beginning of 2010 also sees the inauguration of a new team of European commissioners, although power-politics within the European Parliament means that there could be some alterations to the final line-up

With the increasing use of wind and solar power for low carbon energy generation across Europe, the challenge arises of how to deal with the intermittent nature of such systems

Another year and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers rotates, with Spain taking the role in the first half of 2010