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CONTENTS
NEF success in re-certification for Carbon Trust Standard
Our LA News
CoRE training courses. Retrofit Coordination and Retrofit Asset Management
GDHIF SWI fund dries up
Latest Green Deal and ECO statistics
GD and ECO annual report
Energy Trends
Green Deal pre-assessment research
ECO research
Green Deal assessment research
Davey reports
GD customer journey research
Report to Parliament
Which improvements qualify?
Smart meter clarification
Smart meter progress
More money for warm homes in Scotland
True green costs to bills
Changes to grandfathering policy with respect to future biomass co-firing and conversion projects in the Renewables Obligation
Households in fuel poverty
BG ‘hiding’ cheaper tariffs
Average electricity bill
Customer indebtedness
Cold Homes Week 2015
Electricity security - at a cost
Register My Appliance
Surviving Winter campaign
Your call is important to us…
Go Energy Shopping
Turning off the heat over Christmas
My Energy Credit
Fuel poverty increases in Scotland
Switching continues upwards
Committee on Climate Change report
UK using less energy
Ofgem decides on green tariffs
Business funding for innovation in integrated energy systems
Mass storage test goes live
Retrofit energy efficiency
Labour hints at breaking Big 6 dominance
Cut consumers’ energy use
Report links bills, energy efficiency and lending
Stamp Duty missed opportunity
Fines keep coming
Stately energy saving
Using daylight in buildings to reduce energy use
Solar conversion increased
Excellent shopping in MK
2015 Horizon 2020 Energy
Solar heading towards subsidy-free
Energy efficiency and asthma
Support for green action
Benefits of retail energy saving
Renewable Wembley
LA Energy Efficiency Index
Energy efficiency vital
Educational energy saving
Business commitment to energy management
Biggest solar on stream
Jobs across the UK
Reduce Energy Bills, Install Renewables & Get Cash Incentives
NEF success in re-certification for Carbon Trust Standard
We're delighted that once again we've achieved the Carbon Trust Standard. The Foundation was re-certified on a 4.8% absolute reduction in its carbon footprint across the period April 2011 – March 2014. The Carbon Trust Standard requires organisations to demonstrate year-on-year measurement of their carbon emissions, with re-certification requiring us to go one stage further and report on our business travel emissions too.
We also achieved a great 86% carbon management score (the pass threshold being 60%) demonstrating our ongoing commitment to good all-round carbon management performance in our day-to-day operations.
http://www.nef.org.uk/about-us/news-insights/
Our LA News
Our latest newsletter from our Local Authority and Economic Development Services Team takes a look at: Affordable Solutions; Thermal imaging; Better Housing, Better Health, and the Milton Keynes Carbon Offset Fund.
http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ffb2ed62155d98a3075116806&id=7c19a46ad1
CoRE training courses. Retrofit Coordination and Retrofit Asset Management
The Retrofit Coordination course creates technical leaders for low-energy retrofit projects. The
Retrofit Asset Management course focuses on devising, delivering and maxmising the impact of retrofit projects in the social housing sector. Both courses are available across the UK on a variety of dates between January and March 2015, and are designed and delivered by some of the leading retrofit experts in the world.
http://www.core-skills.com/training/#.VIbJjjGsUlQ
Changes to grandfathering policy with respect to future biomass co-firing and conversion projects in the Renewables Obligation
DECC is seeking view on the proposal that the support rate under the Renewables Obligation (RO) for future biomass co-firing and conversion projects should no longer be covered by our grandfathering policy; and that this change would apply to combustion units that move into the mid-range, high-range co-firing or biomass conversion bands under the RO.
Consultation closes on 26 January 2015.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changes-to-grandfathering-policy-with-respect-to-future-biomass-co-firing-and-conversion-projects-in-the-renewables-obligation
Households in fuel poverty
The number having climbed steadily over the past decade, there are now more than 1 million British families living in fuel poverty, including 18% of families with children in England.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/more-than-one-million-british-families-now-live-in-fuel-poverty-9941033.html
BG ‘hiding’ cheaper tariffs
A claim that British Gas is 'hiding' cheaper energy deals that could save customers £185 per annum by taking advantage of the fact that it doesn’t have to show white label equivalents that might cost consumers less.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/british-gas-hiding-200-year-4847720
Average electricity bill
In 2014, the average electricity bill across all payment types rose by £15 to £592 compared with 2013, DECC figures show.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics
Customer indebtedness
Ofgem reports that, at the end of 2013, around 1.5 million domestic electricity accounts and 1.4 million gas were in debt to their energy supplier.
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/domestic-suppliers-social-obligations-2013-annual-report
Cold Homes Week 2015
Next year's Energy Bill Revolution’s Cold Homes Week is scheduled to take place between 2 and 6 February.
http://energybillrevolution.org/coldhomesweek/
Electricity security - at a cost
The Government’s First Capacity Market auction guarantees electricity security of supply from 2018/19 at a cost of £0.96 billion, which will add £11 per year onto the average household energy bill.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-capacity-market-auction-guarantees-security-of-supply-at-low-cost
Register My Appliance
A portal for consumers to register their electrical appliances is to be launched in January, which will make product recall easier and will also include hints and tips for users.
http://www.registermyappliance.org.uk/registration/
Surviving Winter campaign
The Surviving Winter campaign is raising money to help the UK's older and vulnerable people stay warm and well in winter.
http://ukcommunityfoundations.org/programmes/surviving_winter/
Your call is important to us…
The difference between the time it takes to get through to the energy companies by phone for an existing customer and someone making a new sales call can be as much as nearly 30 minutes.
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2014/12/which-energy-firm-takes-30-minutes-to-answer-its-customers-calls-387477/
Go Energy Shopping
An online Ofgem guide to switching your energy supply company, comparing tariffs and finding price comparison sites.
http://www.goenergyshopping.co.uk/en-gb
Turning off the heat over Christmas
A survey for USwitch reveals that up to 3 million people plan to turn off their heating over Christmas in order to save money on their energy bills.
http://www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity/news/2014/12/15/millions-of-homes-to-switch
-off-heating-over-christmas/?ref=social~energy-guides~uswitch&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=energy-news
My Energy Credit
The Big Six energy companies launch an online service to reunite former customers with any money that might have been left behind when they switched supplier.
http://www.myenergycredit.com/
Fuel poverty increases in Scotland
A summary of the fuel poverty statistics from the recent Scottish House Condition Survey 2013 shows an increase of over 4% from 35.2% to 39.1%.
http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Fuel-Prices-Drive-Up-Fuel-Poverty-1311.aspx
Switching continues upwards
Switching electricity supplier is up from 19% to 41% after 3.3 million customers switched in the last 12 months, including around 1.3 million who moved to a small supplier.
http://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&id=4936
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