How To Make Home Energy Improvements When You’re Renting
MEES: Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Since 2007, every property being let (or sold) in the UK has been required by law to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). A trained and registered EPC assessor collects information on heating systems, insulation,…
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
A life-cycle assessment, or LCA, is the name for a technique used by _ to give a rough idea of the environmental impact of a given project, process or service. It attempts to take into account the entire process, all…
Why is my electricity bill so high?
We all know that feeling of dread when the electric bill comes in and you have to face up to exactly what your household has been using recently. What’s worse than a huge electricity bill, though, is not knowing why…
Do smart homes save you money?
Smart meters There is a lot of rhetoric around smart meters that relates the government rollout of smart meters to halting climate change, but how can a system that measures how much energy you use, change how much energy you…
What Renewable Tech Should I Invest In?
What is a Renewable Energy Feasibility Study (REFS)? A Renewable Energy Feasibility Study is used to provide an analysis of the best heating or microgeneration renewables for your particular needs. When looking into the various options of small-scale renewable energy…
How should the UK fight climate change?
Climate change is all over the news, with Extinction Rebellion continuing, Greta Thunberg making headlines, and billionaires investing in green tech. We all want the government to do something about our carbon footprint as a country, but not one seems…
Why aren’t we generating energy from the Severn?
In this new age of renewables and increasing emphasis on green energy, it seems completely mad to a lot of people that one of the UK’s most powerful resources is going untapped. As an island nation, surely we should be…
How will the oil crisis affect my fuel bills?
It’s no secret that the world is in a very vulnerable state at the moment. Coronvirus and the spread of Covid-19 has seen stocks crash, businesses collapse, and whole industries in a state of panic. The price of oil has…
Could you get £30 for switching energy supplier?
Is switching a good idea? We’ve all heard that we should be switching suppliers, but why? It seems like a bit of an inconvenience if there’s no good reason for it. Why is everyone always talking about switching energy supplier?…
Will Coronavirus affect my energy bills?
It seems that Coronavirus is all anyone is able to to talk about at the moment, and it’s easy to see why. In a matter of weeks the virus has seen an unprecedented change to the way of life for…