Home energy efficiency and demand reduction examined

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The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee are examining the lessons learned from past and present energy efficiency schemes today as part of their inquiry into Home energy efficiency and demand reduction

They will be talking to the following people:

At 9.30am
Richard Twinn, Policy Advisor, UK Green Building Council
Steve Cole, Policy Leader, National Housing Federation
Councillor Peter Fleming, Leader of Sevenoaks District Council and Member of the LGA Environment, Economy, Housing and Transport Board
Joanne Wade, Director, Association for the Conservation of Energy
David Princep, Environmental Health Consultant, Residential Landlords Association

At 10.30am
Lawrence Slade, CEO, Energy UK
Stephen Huller, Head of Commercial, Certinergy
Holly Jago, Corporate Affairs Manager, Calor Gas
Isaac Occhipinti, Head of External Affairs, Energy and Utilities Alliance

Listen live or via catch-up on Parliament TV.
This session is audio only.




The hearing will examine a range of issues, including:

1. Lessons learned from past and present energy efficiency schemes
2. The stability of UK energy efficiency policies and impacts on the supply chain
3. Driving demand in energy efficiency
4. Targeting fuel poverty and hard-to-reach households

Smiley_Dan

This will be interesting to listen to, thanks.

We have it in our power to drastically reduce the amount of energy used by dwellings, to render all this nonsense about choosing a supplier etc effectively redundant, yet it still isn't happening. So it will be interesting to hear what is being discussed in Parliament as to why this is.

Richie-from-the-Boro

"""Energy and Climate Change Committee""" anything this department is involved in will increase costs to the consumer in general and the energy poor in particular.

"""past and present energy efficiency schemes""" will only be allowed into the debate if they glorify Energy and Climate Change and lead to increased costs to the consumer in general and the energy poor in particular.

Its been that way since the invention of the climate change initiative 34 years ago. This committee will change nothing, they never have, just more talk and more inaction, no actual change and an inevitable increase in household energy bills. There is no will in any of the parties in this country. According to the National Grid power supplies will be at their wafer-thinnest in mid January next year, so we had better have a GOV meeting even though it takes 20+ years to build a power station.

UKParliament

On Tuesday 24 November from 9.30am, the Energy and Climate Change Committee will examine the lessons learned from the Green Deal.

The Committee will hear from the following people:
Mark Bayley, Chief Executive, the Green Deal Finance Company
Purpose of session
The hearing will examine a range of issues, including:

The session will cover the following areas:
The performance of the Green Deal Finance Company
Lessons learnt from the Green Deal
Approaches to financing home energy efficiency measures
Future of the pay-as-you-save model

You are able to watch live or catch-up on Parliament TV.

sheffield_lad

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Its been that way since the invention of the climate change initiative 34 years ago. This committee will change nothing, they never have, just more talk and more inaction, no actual change and an inevitable increase in household energy bills. There is no will in any of the parties in this country. According to the National Grid power supplies will be at their wafer-thinnest in mid January next year, so we had better have a GOV meeting even though it takes 20+ years to build a power station.

There have been some massive changes in household usage in the past 10yrs already due from a combination of legislation & innovation can we imagine an environment now without.

Mandatory condensing boilers
Kingspan (other expanding foams are available)
mega flow cylinders
solar pv
external wall insulation (seen on thousands of homes all over the country).
digital room stats
programmable trv's
ASHP
GSHP
narrow cavity fill

If any of you have an interest in the national grid supply check out.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Richie-from-the-Boro

UK grid a pathetic 17% French grid 57%. Were sucking 1.5GW from the 2GW capacity French via the interconnector every current moment and pay handsomely for the privilege. Without getting bogged down with debates about pricing revenue congestion we can therefore assume that electricity flows dominantly to UK from France because French electricity is usually cheaper than UK electricity in the summer profile and sell the French dirty coal & diesel generated UK backup plant power in the winter to make some money back - its madness !