All Energy Crisis articles
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InsightBurges Salmon’s Jack Mitchell on the rise of sustainable finance in the hotel sector
Given the built environment’s contribution both to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, lenders that fund real estate projects have found themselves under pressure from governing bodies to show evidence that they are paving the way to a sustainable way of living.
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Government allocates £1.8bn for UK housing retrofit drive
The government has allocated over £1.8bn in funding for a retrofit drive across social housing, aiming to boost energy efficiency and cut emissions in UK homes.
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Zero VAT for solar installations sends 'clear message’ that the government is backing net-zero transition
Warehouse providers welcome extension of the zero VAT rating for solar panels, heat pumps and insulation to battery storage, when either retrofitted to a solar photovoltaic (PV) system or fitted as a standalone unit.
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Spring Budget: Hunt ‘missed the opportunity’ to reduce embodied carbon in retrofitting
The chancellor has been accused of missing the opportunity to introduce tax incentives for reducing embodied carbon in retrofit and refurbishment projects in this year’s Spring Budget.
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Abode Heat raises alarm over scale of home EPC retrofits needed
Renewable heat provider Abode Heat has reported that around 44% of homes may need to be retrofitted by landlords to meet Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) requirements by 2025.
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Development site viability could be switched on by Ofgem connection reform
Currently unviable commercial and residential development sites could become viable in the future as a result of changes to Ofgem’s connection policy, according to engineering consultancy Buro Happold.
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Don’t underestimate EVs
Tech titan and former world’s richest person Bill Gates observed, in the hastily rewritten second edition of his mid-90s book The Road Ahead, that the future often catches us napping.
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Aussie firm Recharge Industries buys gigafactory company Britishvolt
Australian firm Recharge Industries has completed its purchase of Britishvolt, the financially troubled car battery start-up behind plans for a £3.8bn UK ‘gigafactory’.
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BP charges ahead with £1bn expansion of EV network
Energy giant BP has appointed property agency James Andrew International to secure sites for a planned £1bn expansion of its electric vehicle (EV) charging network, bp pulse, Property Week can reveal.
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Jo Cowen of Jo Cowen Architects on the Viability Crisis of 2023
Last year saw unprecedented macro geopolitical and economic uncertainty, rampant global inflation, war in the Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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Blend’s Roxana Mohammadian-Molina on the three property trends to watch for in 2023
We are undoubtably living through times of unprecedented economic uncertainty and financial volatility, the consequences of which are being felt most severely by many in the housing market. As 2023 gets under way, here’s my take on the three property trends to watch for in 2023.
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Helping residents to save energy
It was encouraging to hear chancellor Jeremy Hunt talking to the Select Committee recently about the government’s ambitions to help people with energy saving by providing tips and advice, but also advocating for people to take responsibility for their own energy consumption as part of a government campaign.
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Carbon Intelligence’s Oliver Light on whether NABERS will be UK landlords’ best friend
Improving the energy efficiency of UK commercial real estate has been on the government’s net-zero agenda since before the launch of the ‘Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution’ in 2020. Critically, it is not just about decarbonising the grid, but also about how to reduce the energy consumption ...
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Government launches £1bn ECO+ home insulation scheme
The government has announced a £1bn scheme to improve energy efficiency in British homes and save households an estimated £310 a year on energy bills.
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Optimising efficiency: The glaring hole in energy strategy
What if there was a way for UK buildings to reduce both their emissions and their energy bills by a significant amount, for minimal financial outlay?
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Brace for the impact of real austerity
In 1947, as he was about to present his Budget, Labour’s Hugh Dalton, the then chancellor of the exchequer, let slip to an old friend: “No more on tobacco; a penny on beer; something on dogs and pools but not on horses; increase in purchase tax, but only on articles ...
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Insulation from the energy crisis
Vincent Bryant, CEO and co-founder of Deepki, discusses the importance of improving energy efficiency across property portfolios if managers are to avoid the worst this winter.
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Energy efficiency is a breeze with Glide Labs
Ensuring that buildings perform as efficiently as possible has never been more important.
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SSE and Oxford Properties plan UK-wide EV charging network
SSE Energy Solutions, part of the FTSE-100 energy group, has signed an electric vehicle (EV) charging partnership with real estate investor Oxford Properties (Oxford).
