Are your office staff too hot or too cold? So many offices experience temperature and air quality problems and this can often stand in the way of achieving energy reduction objectives, set as part of an ISO14001 management system. In addition, our experience is that when staff make repeated temperature complaints, they become less satisfied […]
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From us you’ll get straightforward advice about how to comply with water use limits under part G of Building Regulations.
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Now although the answer to this question might seem a little obvious, some gradual changes have crept in over the past few years that have changed the way that we buy our lamps. This is because the old style tungsten lamps that we’ve been used to have been phased out. For some time its hasn’t
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ECO installer in Thanet? We can help you. We accurately produce ECO scores for the Energy Company Obligation scheme (ECO) and can model savings from the range of improvement measures that qualify for ECO funding. We present the savings in an approved format to satisfy OFGEM requirements. What is the Energy Company Obligation
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What’s all this feed in Tariff stuff? Easy – you can produce electricity at your home or business by using renewable energy generating equipment such as photovoltaic (solar) panels. These use the sun’s energy and turn it into electricity and government pays you for the electricity that you generate. Some of this electricity may be surplus. It
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One evening a week or so back I went to the Portas pilot meeting in Margate. Mary Portas was there in person. It was held at the old Woolworths shop in the High Street which had displays showing the elements that had made up Margate’s winning bid. It was pretty good. The town team’s plan
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High Street retailers such as Marks and Spencers and John Lewis will soon be helping homeowners with insulation, double glazing, solar panels and a range of other improvements. The initiative is being led by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). It aims to help reduce the energy use from homes and meet the
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Why will EPCs and Energy Assessors be better after April?. The new style EPC will give better value. It will show both the potential savings that can be made from domestic improvements as well those improvements that will receive 100% government funding to carry out. But not only is there a new EPC, there are also up
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Things change for Estate agents on the 6thApril. The first page of the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) will need to be displayed with the property particulars. Previously it was acceptable to attach just the coloured rating graph, but studies found that people better understood a building’s running costs when they were given figures in plain
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Businesses don’t really need energy efficiency audits. Trust me, without them, everything is likely to work just fine – there’s the hiccup of paying higher energy bills year on year of course, but that’s just part of your fixed costs, right? Energy savings in London Text messaging, satellite TV, cameras on phones – you don’t
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