I cannot believe it is only ten past 7! All 3 children are washed, fed and dressed and we don't have to leave for school until just after 8, the cleaning is done and my invoicing for my work today is already done. Am in super organised mode today.
I was outside a moment ago (letting the dogs down the garden) and its trying to snow?! I love the snow normally but after Decembers efforts - 3 inches of snow one day the entire country grinds to a stop, followed by no snow just ice and slush then a little bit more snow, I would prefer it to not snow at the moment.
A family friend rang me the other night to talk about renewable energy - and I admit it I learned something new. He works for a solar panel company and he wanted to see if my house was south facing, due to the Governments feed in tarriff the company he works for will install the solar panels on your roof for free. Being the cynical person I can be I wanted to know what the catch was. Apparently to get the solar panels for free your house (this applys to commercial buildings as well) needs to be south facing and must be able to accommodate at least a 3.5Kw system and must be willing to sign a lease agreement for the company to lease their roof for the next 25 years. The benefits of this is that although the company gets the feed in tarrif from the Government for all the energy going back into the grid the homeowner gets the rest of the free energy and therefore lowers their own personal heating bills. I am going to look into it further and see if my house is suitable - as far as I am concerned it would be a selling point for my property (if and when I sell) as who wouldn't want cheaper heating bills for their home!
Last night I was proved right in my obsession in double checking. I did a "tricky" property the other week, beautiful house but there were numerous improvements that the rdsap would not be able to calculate properly. So to make sure that my EPC was produced correctly and as accurately as possible I rang my accreditation company. This is my 4th year of being a DEA but I would rather ring and double, triple check than produce an incorrect EPC. After quite a bit of back and forth calls we came to a conclusion that would produce the most accurate EPC for the client. Last night made me very glad that I had done that as the client queried the result on the EPC - I managed to explain everything and because I had checked thoroughly I was confident and happy in my answers.
Off to get myself up and dressed ready for the walk to school (saving petrol and energy and hopefully working off a bit of the Christmas stodge!)
Showing posts with label renewable energy. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Monday, 15 November 2010
fun on the farm
I have been reading this morning about Micheal Eavis (of Glastonbury fame) - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/10/solar-power-glastonbury-michael-eavis he has installed 1,116 solar panels on the roof of a cowshed at his farm.
During his interview he mentioned how easy he has found it, with the help from the governments feed in tarriff (http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/feedin_tariff/feedin_tariff.aspx) which has used powers in the Energy Act 2008 to introduce a system of feed-in tariffs to incentivise small scale (less than 5MW), low carbon electricity generation. The Department's Response to the Consultation on Feed-in Tariffs (FITs)(set out the decisions in relation to the FITs scheme. These feed-in tariffs work alongside the Renewables Obligation (RO), which will remain the primary mechanism to incentivise deployment of large-scale renewable electricity generation, and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which will incentivise generation of heat from renewable sources at all scales. The Department launched the Renewable Heat Incentive consultation on 1 February 2010 and the deadline for responses to this was on 26 April 2010.
Solid or liquid biomass technologies continue to be supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) at all scales.
I have a colleague who has diversified from energy assessments in fitting photovoltics as he said it is definately the way to go, he has them on the roof of his own property and has saved money on his energy bills already.
During his interview he mentioned how easy he has found it, with the help from the governments feed in tarriff (http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/feedin_tariff/feedin_tariff.aspx) which has used powers in the Energy Act 2008 to introduce a system of feed-in tariffs to incentivise small scale (less than 5MW), low carbon electricity generation. The Department's Response to the Consultation on Feed-in Tariffs (FITs)(set out the decisions in relation to the FITs scheme. These feed-in tariffs work alongside the Renewables Obligation (RO), which will remain the primary mechanism to incentivise deployment of large-scale renewable electricity generation, and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which will incentivise generation of heat from renewable sources at all scales. The Department launched the Renewable Heat Incentive consultation on 1 February 2010 and the deadline for responses to this was on 26 April 2010.
Householders considering generating their own electricity should look at the Energy Saving Trust’s Clean Energy Cashback[External link] web pages for more information on energy efficiency measures as well as independent advice on the technologies concerned.
Small-scale low-carbon electricity technologies eligible for FITs are:- Wind;
- Solar photovoltaics (PV);
- Hydro;
- Anaerobic digestion; and
- Domestic scale microCHP (with a capacity of 2kW or less)*
Solid or liquid biomass technologies continue to be supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) at all scales.
I have a colleague who has diversified from energy assessments in fitting photovoltics as he said it is definately the way to go, he has them on the roof of his own property and has saved money on his energy bills already.
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