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The benefits of smart meters
Smart gas and electricity meters will play a key role in bringing our energy management into the 21st century. They will bring benefits for consumers, giving us more control over how we use our energy at home and at work, helping us to cut energy consumption save money and reduce carbon emissions. Smart meters will [...]
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Rio +20
As many of those reading this blog are probably aware, Rio +20 marks the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio, which gave rise to many outcomes – the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, the Forests Principles, Convention on Biological Diversity – and importantly in the DECC context, the UN Framework Convention on [...]
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Busting Green Deal Myths
When it launches this autumn, the Green Deal will become the most ambitious home improvement programme since the second world war. It is at the heart of the Government’s strategy, not just to Green our economy but to also help family’s improve their homes, cut their fuel bills and with that, reduce the UK’s dependence [...]
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Putting Low Carbon Heating on the Map
At the end of March, DECC celebrated the launch of its Heat Strategy, and alongside it we launched a new, state of the art, National Heat Map. The National Heat Map is a unique device that gives people reliable information about where heat networks are technically possible. It is the only map covering the whole of [...]
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Future consumers would not thank us for looking for an energy policy in the bargain basement
Nothing generates column inches these days like discussion about the costs of our future energy mix. And rightly so. Our ageing fleet of power stations, our increasing reliance on imported fossil fuels and the need for us to reduce carbon emissions all add up to one thing: we need investment. Here at DECC we’ve developed [...]
