From April 2010, large non-intensive energy consumers will have to buy allowances to cover the carbon they emit. But inclusion in the scheme depends on energy use in 2008, as Simon Napper explains.

At this month’s EU Energy Council were both Geoff Hoon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, and Ed Miliband, the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change – although credited in the Council minutes as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

At the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee on 26 September, EU Member States endorsed the European Commission’s proposals for two Regulations aimed at reducing electricity consumption in Europe.

DCLG has published a guide to the scope and requirements of Regulations applying to energy performance certificates when non-domestic properties are being sold or let.

DCLG has finally published a report summarizing building thermal performance requirements in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, classifying them according to their approach.

A guide to the scope and requirements of regulations applying to energy performance certificates when homes are being sold or let has been published by DCLG.

Communities housing minister Caroline Flint has unveiled a package of new development rules which will reduce regulation for home improvements.

Progressively enhancing building regulations to the point where all new homes are “zero carbon” from 2016 could generate carbon reductions between 2.62 and 3.16mt/y
by 2020 but could initially increase current build costs between 17 and 24%.