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What a waste
When asked to write this blog, just one thought, one idea and only one simple reaction came to me. Rubbish. As part my work as a director of Eco Action Partnership (sustainability consultants) I advise ways to reduce environmental impacts and footprints for various events and clients and we’ve just finished our fifth year working on [...]
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Greening events great and small
Well first an introduction, as the newbie guest blogger in the DECC space. I’m Rick Storey, from Eco Action Partnership, a sustainability consultancy set up to offer advice and practical solutions to events and companies wishing to engage and reduce their environmental impacts and carbon footprints. We promote the use of renewables wherever possible, and write [...]
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Making DECC energy efficient
The last few months have been a busy time for the DECC Sustainability team, with lots of reporting on the 2011/12 financial year, and planning for future energy saving projects. With our 2011/12 sustainability performance now reported in our Annual Report & Accounts and having just achieved a new, improved Display Energy Certificate (DEC) rating, [...]
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Making progress on SMETS
You may know that on 5 April the Smart Metering Programme notified the European Commission of our conclusions relating to the Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications, or SMETS as we like to call them here. We are required to do this under the terms of the EU Technical Standards Directive. The Directive allows the Commission [...]
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Certainty for feed-in tariffs
From panels on roofs glinting in the sun, to churning turbines in streams and brooks, home-grown local energy generation is really flourishing across the UK, supplying thousands of our homes and businesses with clean green power. This revolution in small-scale green energy has been driven forward thanks to support from the Government’s feed-in tariff (FiTs) [...]
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