Eric Salomon, EDF Energy’s Energy Field Services Director Discusses Low Carbon Solutions
At EDF Energy, we are committed to helping the UK reach its carbon emissions reduction target of 80% by 2050.
As the UK’s largest supplier of electricity, we believe we have a key role in helping people lower their carbon footprint from energy use.
That means helping people use less energy in the first place, and then ensuring that what they do use is low- carbon.
The main challenge is a customer one; to win the battle for hearts and minds and help every individual and business make lots of small changes which make a big difference.
That is why we are working with our customers on a variety of initiatives that will reduce emissions, stop us wasting energy and create a mass movement of change. It means investing in the technology we need while educating our customers and everyone else in the UK on the energy challenge.
EDF Energy has completed the first project under the Government’s Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP). CESP is expected to benefit around 90,000 houses and deliver £350m of energy savings from now until 2012. EDF Energy will be contributing around £65m to CESP over the lifetime of the initiative.
CESP targets low-income areas and is designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes to alleviate fuel poverty and save carbon emissions.
For example, we are working with Liverpool Mutual Homes on a CESP programme to improve and regenerate homes in the city. The scheme involves installing replacement boilers, solid wall insulation and new windows. And in Bristol, we have worked with Sustain Ltd on a project which has included installing solid wall insulation on a tower block.
We are also heavily involved in The Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT). We work with Local Authorities, housing associations and managing agents to deliver energy saving measures, primarily loft and cavity wall insulation to homes in the UK. Through CESP and CERT we are helping people to use their energy more efficiently and reduce their bills.
Another important change is the introduction of smart meters at scale. Over the last five years, EDF Energy has been trialling over 3,000 smart meters with technology such as energy display units in homes across the UK. The current mandated completion date for the roll out to all homes and small business in Great Britain is 2020, however there is ongoing discussion with the Government as to whether the roll out might be accelerated. EDF Energy is working with the Government and Ofgem to agree both the technical standards and the deployment approach in order to ensure the success of the UK smart metering implementation.
Smart metering is more than just a meter which is simply a measuring device. It is the enabler for innovative products and services that can help save energy. For example, with an energy display unit it can help identify information such as how energy is used so behavioural changes can be made. With a time-of-use tariff,
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