Energy Efficiency
6 quick and easy ways to save energy and stay warm this winter
Making simple energy saving improvements to your home can help to drive down energy costs and greatly improve warmth and comfort.
Energy Efficiency
Partnering with landlords to provide warm, healthy, low carbon homes
By Dr Tim Beecher Retrofit Assessor, Domestic Energy Assessor In a bid to lower the energy bills of those in rented homes while also reducing the UK’s carbon emissions, the UK government has set ambitious new energy efficiency targets. Research carried out in Q3 2024 shows that 67% of landlords Read more…
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Why improving rental housing will bring better health, cheaper bills, and lower carbon emissions
By Dr Tim Beecher Retrofit Assessor, Domestic Energy Assessor The need for better quality housing While the UK has faced a significant housing shortage for many years, the housing crisis is at an all-time high. The market, as it currently stands, empowers landlords to charge high rents in exchange for Read more…
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How Politicians Can Help Landlords Become Environmental Heroes Rather Than Social Pariahs.
In the face of catastrophic climate change, we need to encourage energy efficiency and cleaner, renewable energy production, more than ever before. Unfortunately, our current government seems to be indifferent, if not intentionally hostile, to promoting this constructive, job-creating transition to a cleaner, income-generating and robust energy bill saving economy. Read more…
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Cheaper Bills, Local Empowerment and Community Energy Co-ops
The Conservative budget announcement in July was not good news for the renewables industry, nor for members of the public who are concerned about climate change, rising energy prices and the impact that extreme methods of extracting oil and gas will have on our air, water and soil (1,2). Support Read more…