Heat, risk, business, politics and sustainability
I spent a remarkable amount of time yesterday talking about district heating and combined heat and power (CHP) - with students in the morning and...
Are we stuck in an oil price doom loop?
Mar 30, 2012
I'm reading The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin - I'll post a review here in the next few weeks - but in the first...
A new start for district heating?
May 8, 2009
According to the ENDS report, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has commissioned a report on district heating in the UK, which accounts...
District Heating in Brum
Feb 12, 2009
I spent yesterday in Birmingham looking at the Utilicom District Heating Scheme which is growing fast organically like their Southampton example. The initial scheme for...
Hot & Cold in Southampton
Sep 17, 2008
Yesterday morning I visited the Southampton District Energy Scheme. It supplies not only heat (some of which comes from a geothermal source) but also cooling...
What is Heat?
Feb 4, 2008
An interesting juxtaposition of headlines on edie last week:On Thursday: Academic blasts Government's green construction rulesOn Friday: Government wants tips on 'renewable' heatingMaybe Jo Williams,...
Waste heat “will be zero carbon”
Dec 5, 2007
Another positive from the Local Government Association Climate Change conference. I asked the Audit Commission's carbon gurus about the use of heat from electricity generation...
Why don’t we do district heating in the UK?
Dec 3, 2007
I was giving a presentation on Sustainable Construction on Friday to a group of Local Authority energy managers. I mentioned Kalundborg in Denmark where the...