The District Energy Initiative was launched at the Labour Party Conference, Brighton in September 2001. This meeting - sponsored by London Electricity, and addressed by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions - marked the industry's response to the Government's Community Energy Programme, currently underway. For details of the launch, go to the DEI press release. For further details of the programme, please visit www.est.org.uk/communityenergy.
The District Energy Initiative works to bring the benefits of affordable warmth to local consumers. Local authorities and housing associations are welcome to participate in this specialist group. It already has over 50 local authorities involved with an interest in district energy and is supported by the major equipment manufacturers and suppliers.
For further details, contact us on 020 7828 4077 or by email: dei @ chpa.co.uk.
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2005: Energy Technologies at the Cutting Edge CHP and district heating covered in major new IEA report. Available to download from www.iea.org (or go direct to PDF (3.9MB) here). |
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April 2005: Community Heating Planners and Developers Guide Published The Energy Saving Trust and the Carbon Trust today published their long awaited Community Heating Planers and Developers Guide. This guide is written for all those involved in the planning and development process and applies to all buildings within the built environment including domestic dwellings, commercial and public sector buildings, as well as industrial buildings and the regeneration of estates within towns and cities. Download from the EST website |
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April 2005: Biomass: Opportunties for CHP April's Members' Briefing was supplied by Stewart Boyle focusing on current policy instruments and reviews concerned with the promotion of renewably-generated heat. Stewart's presentation can be downloaded here (Powerpoint file 1.5Mb). Stewart is the Business Development Director at Wood Energy. |
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March 2005: Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (for England) - Third Annual
Report The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group have today warned that “business as usual” will not be adequate to achieve the Government’s target of eradicating fuel poverty amongst vulnerable customers by 2010. The report also highlights that "in some cases, Hard to Treat Homes need community rather then individual house solutions." More details here. |
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2005: New Glenshellach Biomass Community Heating Scheme in Oban Vital Energi, provider of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and District Energy (DE) Community Heating (CH) schemes, is playing a lead role in the regeneration of a local Scottish community, with a design, manufacture, installation and commissioning project for the Glenshellach biomass community heating scheme in Oban. Read more. |
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December 2004: £10 miliion boost to the Community Energy Programme
The DEFRA 5 year strategy has just been released. Within the strategy
it is announced that the Community Energy Programme “…will
continue for at least the next three years, to March 2008, with
additional funding of £10m available once the original allocation
of £50m is exhausted." More information in the attached
press release. |
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October 2004: Community Heat Networks |
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October 2004 - Mayor Announces Key Appointment to Set Up a Climate
Change Agency for London Allan Jones of CHPA Member Woking Borough Council, has been appointed as Chief Development Officer for the London Climate Change Agency. More information on the following press release. |
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August 2004 - Community Heating: £16m approved in record grant
allocation EST/Carbon Trust announcment on the latest round of the Government's Community Energy Programme. More information here. |
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July 2004: Energy Minister Visits Site of New Community Heating System
in Cornwall Energy Minister Stephen Timms today launched an energy strategy for Cornwall, with a visit to a potential new geothermal community heating system at the Penwith Housing Association, which has received a grant of £72,000 from the DTI's Clear Skies programme. Further information can be found on the following DTI press release. The Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership report Action Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow - The Energy Strategy for Cornwall (2004) Details of the Clear Skies programme. |
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July 2004: District Heating/CHP Study Released by World Energy Council The World Energy Council (WEC) has released a study which examines regulatory issues related to district heating/combined heat and power (DH/CHP) and presents recommendations to the operators of DH/CHP plants and systems. The study group included representatives from fourteen countries: Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Macedonia, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Greece. Further information available here. |
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June 2004: CEP Grant awards The Energy Saving Trust and The Carbon Trust have recently awarded grants to a total of £885,000 for six new eco-friendly community heating schemes. Further information is available on the following news release. |
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May 2004: Extension to CEP Spend The Energy Saving Trust welcomed the announcement by HM Treasury today to extend the spending deadline for the Government-funded Community Energy Programme. The extension enables public sector heating projects in receipt of Community Energy grants a further 3 years to claim funding. Further information available here. |
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May 2004: Royal Commission Promote Biomass & CHP The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) have today published their special report 'Biomass as a Renewable Energy Source' which lists a number of recommendations promoting the greater use of CHP and also biomass heat networks. Click here for RCEP press release, the RCEP's report and the CHPA' s press release welcoming its publication. |
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2004: Community Energy Set to Go On In recognition of the Community Energy Programme's achievements, HM Treasury has just awarded the programme a spend extension to March 2007. This significant boost to the programme means that all approved schemes will have an extra year to claim grant funding. The deadline for submission of claims is February 2007. The bidding rounds for applications remain unchanged, with the last deadline being 31st January 2005. However, this encouraging news means that projects can now be viewed in light of a two year window to receive grant assistance for the work undertaken More information here. |
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2004: New Community Energy Programme Documents Released A number of guidance documents have just been published by the Energy Saving Trust. They include Connecting CHP in community heating to the electrical network, Getting Best Value for Electricity Generated in Community Heating, Community heating using new and renewable sources and Small scale community heating. All downloadable here. |
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2004: CEP Aberdeen City Council case Study This detailed case study details how Aberdeen City Council used Community Energy as a solution to this issues when upgrading their multi-storey and low-rise housing to achieve a reduction in fuel bills and carbon emissions of 40%. Downloadable from here. |
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February 2004:Community Energy Programme News Eight projects in England, Scotland and Wales delivering community heating will get government grants, helping to reduce energy bills and combat both greenhouse gases and fuel poverty. DEFRA press release here. |
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2004: Financing Community Energy Schemes A new EST guide from the Community Energy programme has just been published providing information on routes to funding a community heating scheme. Additional annexes are also available detailing Whole Life Costing issues and Community Energy Using Renewables. All reports downloadable from here. |
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2004: Costs and Benefits of Community Heating Explained A new guide from the Energy Saving Trust's Energy Efficiency Best Practice in Housing programme outlines what a community heating scheme is and the multiple advantages of implementing a scheme. The guide also details the use of whole life costing with a live example of how community heating compares to other forms of heating. Downloadable from here. |
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2004: Full UK Potential CH Study Now Available The EST have just published in full the UK Potential Study for Community Heating. A summary version of the report was only previously available. The report demonstrates the very substantial potential existing in areas across the UK. The vast majority of this is currently not realised, meaning that significant opportunity for further reduction of carbon emissions still exist. Downloadable here. |
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