@davidcolbourne.bsky.social
Energy geek. Housing Retrofit Manager at LCRCA. Trustee at Energy Projects Plus. Typos and views my own.
The National Audit Office has published a new report on insulation installation failures under the ECO scheme. Our Chief Executive Adam Scorer says work should be completed to a 'high standard'. And 'good quality, effective insulation remains vital to tackling fuel poverty.'
14.10.2025 06:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Insulation and ventilation, when done properly, are among the safest and most effective ways to bring down energy bills and keep people warm
But sub-standard delivery and weak oversight by the last Government has turned what should have been a national success story into a cautionary tale.
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Veggy but great, Restaurant Wrenkh, Wiener Kochsalon
13.04.2025 09:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Radio Teleswitch service will be switched off from the end of June. If you have an RTS meter, you will need to get this changed. Please urgently contact your supplier to avoid losing access to energy or constantly pay peak rates.
31.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2. As the CBI, scarcely known for its green credentials, shows, "The net zero economy has become a powerhouse of job creation and economic expansion with 10.1% growth in the total economic value supported by the net zero economy since 2023." www.cbi.org.uk/articles/gro...
18.03.2025 06:05 — 👍 287 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 4
Over a number of years Politicians chose to hide behind a vast array of quangos, arms length bodies and regulators, you name it. A sort of cottage industry of checkers and blockers Using taxpayer money to stop the government delivering on taxpayer priorities
Some interesting stuff worth reading in the PM’s speech today - if you can look past the baffling approach to paragraphs.
First, there’s this criticism of regulators, “cottage industry of checkers and blockers”…
www.gov.uk/government/s...
👍Welcomed. I think the optics of providing "air conditioning" may have excluded them from grant schemes (historically, although change is in the air), but there are many advantages, particularly in smaller properties and flats. It's interesting that installer capacity is quite high (relatively).
08.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@theguardian.com seem to have multiple crossed wires here:
- The Future Homes Standard will ban gas boilers in newbuild homes. It has nothing to do with existing homes.
- Labour made it clear before the election that they weren't prepared to set a date to ban new gas boilers in existing homes.
10 Common Birds to Spot on Your Big Garden Birdwatch with illustrations. Featured birds include: Blackbird (male black, female brown), Blue Tit (blue, yellow, white face), Goldfinch (red face, yellow wings), Great Tit (yellow chest, black head), Magpie (black, white, long tail), Robin (orange breast), Starling (iridescent black), Woodpigeon, Long-tailed Tit, and House Sparrow.
The #BigGardenBirdwatch will be here before we know it!
Let's get some ID practice in with 10 familiar faces... 🐦👀
From dazzling Goldfinches to cheeky Robins, are any regulars on your patch?
PS - Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
New @marmotihe.bsky.social report concludes the twin crisis of #healthequity and #housing must be solved together by the property sector, central and local government building good quality houses in the right place, for the right people at the right price bit.ly/4989ph4
17.12.2024 14:34 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
5 tips from me on what to do if your heat pump is struggling to heat your home.
The first thing you should do is contact your installer but if you can’t get hold of them, here are some handy tips you can try yourself until an engineer responds.
If it’s not faulty, you can be toasty 24/7 👇
Friday reading alert 🔔 Our new report from @raeng.org.uk National Engineering Policy Centre around healthy, safe and sustainable retrofit of buildings is out TODAY 1/5 nepc.raeng.org.uk/healthy-buil...
13.12.2024 06:44 — 👍 56 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 0Dutch Senate has now also approved the bill. With this, proposal now becomes law and Dutch municipalities can put an end to the gas network as the final piece of a coordinated heat transition.
10.12.2024 15:31 — 👍 112 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 4Really excited to share this programme. ASPIRE is a gateway to careers for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. Train to help people access grants to reduce energy bills and improve your career prospects. Applications now open;
liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/aspire-disco...
So who should bear the cost? It's such an obvious question that you have to ask why it wasn't asked.
24.11.2024 17:53 — 👍 178 🔁 18 💬 17 📌 1
Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?
Critics of renewables often say that we cannot possibly replace the vast amount of fossil fuel we currently use with clean energy.
The good news is that we don’t have to. My article in Medium explains why.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
Big news on heat pumps from the UK govt this morning: the 1 metre planning rule is to be abolished!
Big credit to my colleagues @katyking2.bsky.social and @codrinacretu.bsky.social who did so much work on this
www.gov.uk/government/n...
