Following the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announcement of a consultation on the SAP and RdSAP methodologies back in December, we as the leading experts (Elmhurst and NHER) in this field have been busy investigating and digesting the consultation questions and associated research documentation. In an effort to keep our members informed of the impact of these changes for both the new build and existing dwellings market, we are summarising the key
Elmhurst Energy is pleased to see some potential exciting news over the weekend. The Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC) has been sold to Greenstone Finance and Aurium Capital Markets. Since the Government pulled funding on the GDFC last year, the Green Deal has effectively been left in limbo. In a press release on the GDFC website: “Greenstone Finance, which invests in organisations focused on financing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and Aurium, a structured
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We at Elmhurst welcome that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a consultation on the SAP and RdSAP methodologies in December. We are very supportive of this consultation and will certainly be replying to this, in our usual considered manner. As the leading experts in this field, we at Elmhurst including our new NHER staff (experts) and members, feel it is essential that we respond to this vitally important consultation. Within
Elmhurst welcomes the consultation document issued by Northern Ireland Department of Finance that proposes a domestic rates holiday based upon either the property's EPC rating or an improvement on the Target Emissions Rate as required by regulations. This is something that Elmhurst Energy have been campaigning for over the past few years. The scheme will only be offered to the first occupants of new build homes in the private sector but it is proposed that eligible
As someone who has been involved in Energy Efficiency for my whole professional career, I have been extravagant and issued myself twelve wishes at Christmas. These are my personal views, but I hope they strike accord with other like minded people. My personal journey since 1997 has been one of learning, adapting and constantly moving with the times. I have lived and breathed through energy ratings and calculations for professional institutions before the chaotic period
As the largest Accreditation scheme in the UK, Elmhurst Energy welcomes the response from DCLG today on this important consultation. We welcome the open approach of Government in attempting to make improvement to the current systems and processes. We agree with all the results of the responses, in fact we at Elmhurst noted that in all questions we sided with the majority of the decisions in all responses to the consultation As they say the
As Elmhurst Energy predicted in a news item two weeks ago the Each Home Matters report was finally published at 6pm on Friday 16th December. Reports that are issued that late on a Friday, a week before Christmas, are not normally happy reading but this one is nothing to be frightened of. The ‘Each Home Counts’ report, originally entitled the ‘Bonfield Review’, actually makes little mention of Green Deal, or any of the infrastructure that
BEIS have published their RHI consultation response which indicates the likely changes to this important scheme for reducing carbon emissions for implementation in spring 2017. Relating to domestic installations; The scheme will continue to support all four technologies currently supported by the scheme. The tariffs for new Air Source Heat Pumps and Ground Source Heat Pumps will be increased to 10.02 pence per kilowatthour (p/kWh) and 19.55p/kWh respectively. All new Air Source Heat Pumps and
In a major keynote speech at "The Heat Summit: How Can We Decarbonise Heating?” ran by Policy Exchange, Baroness Neville-Rolfe backed the Paris Agreement and commitment that the Government would continue its targets to 2050. She began with the Paris Agreement and UK energy consumption: “Globally we have seen growing momentum on the need to urgently tackle climate change. Last year this led to the landmark Paris Agreement, which as you will all know has
With ECO in transition and a lack of progress with a pay-as-you-save model to replace Green Deal, the state of the house sale and rentals market is critical for most Domestic Energy Assessors. Elmhurst Energy were interested to read the views of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and their predictions for 2017. There will not be extensive house price inflation in 2017 and the number of
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