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Government ‘dithering’ over
Study backs refurb
The economic and
CHP could cost 20,000 jobs
environmental benefits of
refurbishing existing commercial
buildings rather than rebuilding n
The UK government’s Manders said: ‘For at least
apparent ‘indecision’ over one green technology that can be
from scratch are outlined in a providing an incentive to use used in the home, micro-CHP,
new report backed by the British combined heat and power (CHP) current government indecision is
Council for Offices. Can do in the UK is threatening the future threatening the future of 20,000 UK
Refurbishment is published by of 20,000 jobs and an industry jobs, and an industry with a potential
Scott Brownrigg in partnership potentially worth £1.5bn. value to the UK economy of £1.5bn.
with Hilson Moran and The criticism came from Ian ‘The UK leads the world in
Gardiner & Theobald. Manders, deputy director of the design and development of
www.scottbrownrigg.com the Combined Heat and Power micro-CHP units. However, the
Association (CHPA), who claimed government is risking seeing
Homes to be monitored that the CHP industry ‘still has no investment, jobs and manufacturing
The Energy Saving Trust has idea what tariff rate the technology go abroad, to where micro-CHP
appointed research body BSRIA will receive’. already receives considerable Sunderland Royal Hospital, UK, has
to carry out energy monitoring Government officials are in financial support, such as in installed a new CHP system
and data recording for solid wall the final stages of setting the the Netherlands and Germany.’
insulation and retrofit field trials subsidies for feed-in tariffs (FiT) in The CHPA, the Heating and government ministers in parliament.
in up to 200 existing homes time for the scheme’s introduction Hotwater Industry Council and As the Journal went to press,
across the UK. The contract will in April, but have so far failed to the Micropower Council have now the government announced it was
run to April 2013. confirm a rate for CHP. According to jointly written to Lord Hunt, the publishing its final policy on FiTs,
Manders, the government’s internal energy minister, to urgently confirm as well as a consultation on the
Retreat, defend or attack deadline for finalising the FiT rates that micro-CHP will be treated in renewable heat incentive scheme, in
Retreating inland, creating are only weeks away. the FiTs as previously indicated by February.
habitable defence structures
and building out into the sea
are three options proposed to
cope with the extremities of ‘Poo power’ helps cut CO
2
rising sea levels in a futuristic
project released by RIBA think- Thames Water has found its own This saved the company £15m in sludge is burned to created heat,
tank Building Futures and the novel way to generate electricity and electricity bills last year. which in turn generates power –
Institution of Civil Engineers. cut carbon emissions – using sewage Thames Water uses two described as ‘poo power’.
www.ice.org.uk sludge in the form of ‘poo cakes’. methods to generate power from Keith Colquhoun, Thames
In 2008-09 Britain’s biggest sewage: thermal destruction with Water’s climate change strategy
Deep-sea port under way water and sewerage company energy recovery, where sewage manager, said: ‘Our goal is to cut
Around 12,000 jobs in generated 14 per cent of its power sludge is burned to generate power; greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per
construction and logistics will needs from either burning sewage and anaerobic digestion, whereby cent on 1990 levels by 2020 – that’s
be created by building Europe’s sludge or methane derived from it. methane derived from sewage about 200,000 tonnes less CO2.’
largest combined deep-sea port
and logistics park in the River
Thames in Essex. The £1.5bn,
1,500-acre site will give deep-sea
shipping access. Works have
now started.
Leaders of tomorrow sought
The Centre for Sustainability
Leadership in Australia is looking
for the sustainability leaders of
the future in engineering. Those
interested are invited to apply for
the 2010 fellowship in Melbourne
and Sydney. www.csl.org.au
Biggest data centre
Europe’s largest data centre will
be built in Scotland, with AECOM
Hot savings at new landmark
providing technical support to The new £72m Museum of Liverpool is having a combined heat and power (CHP) system installed to save
help ensure the 250,000 sqm £500,000 worth of energy a year. The trigeneration technology, which creates highly efficient heat, electricity and
scheme is sustainable and has cooling, will also reduce carbon emissions by 884 tonnes each year – equivalent to the environmental benefit of
a low-carbon performance, 88,400 trees. Greater-Manchester-based ENER-G is installing the CHP system and will maintain and operate it for
according to the consultancy. 17 years. The museum will open in 2011.
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