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CHP sectors ‘need
New apprenticeships bill
The first apprenticeships and will help to meet ministers’
government’ backing
legislation for nearly 200 years, ambitions that one in five
giving all suitably qualified young young people will undertake an
people the legal right to on- apprenticeship by 2020.
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The combined heat and the-job training, has now been The number of people
power (CHP) sector needs published. embarking on apprenticeships
urgent financial stimulus if it is to The Apprenticeships, Skills, has risen from 65,000 in 1997 to a
meet UK government aspirations, Children and Learning Bill will quarter of a million this year, with
according to the industry. provide an apprenticeship overall government investment
The government wants place for every suitably qualified soon to top £1bn annually.
10,000MW of CHP installed by young person who wants one www.parliament.uk
2010, but the lack of financial
incentives for the public could prove
to be a massive barrier to CHP David Shaw: CHP can make savings
£1m in renewable BRE and PURE in
take-up, according to David Shaw of
energy grants partnership
Baxi-SenerTec UK. microgeneration, so that more of
“CHP can produce an overall the country’s power is generated Funding worth £1m for energy BRE is now in partnership with a
saving of close to 30 per cent locally or close to the point of use. saving projects and feasibility leading carbon offsetting charity
compared with receiving electricity Currently, consumers who studies was awarded in the to help the UK reach its 80 per
from the [national] grid and generate their own power receive no third round of the Community cent carbon reduction target by
generating heat separately,” Shaw guaranteed price from their utility for Sustainable Energy Programme 2050.
told a recent CIBSE/ASHRAE electricity they sell back, but “your (CSEP) capital grants scheme. PURE, the Clean Planet Trust,
seminar on CHP. supplier will happily take it from you CSEP helps community-based and BRE (the Building Research
He urged the government to for very little and sell it back to you organisations in England reduce Establishment Ltd) are encouraging
look at what had been achieved the next day at full price”, says Shaw. their energy bills and environmental businesses and individuals to
in other European countries – However, the government has impact through renewable energy manage their carbon better and
notably Germany – where ‘feed-in promised feed-in tariffs as part of generation, funded by more than aim to establish offset projects
tariffs’ that enable consumers the new Energy Bill, which should £10m from the Big Lottery Fund’s to dramatically reduce carbon
to sell electricity back to the grid become law before the next election. Changing Spaces programme. emissions.
have stimulated the market for www.cibseashrae.org www.communitysustainable.org.uk www.bre.co.uk
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