Oct 2, 2020 | Government, Heat Pump, Housing, Renewable, Retrofit, Uncategorized
The Green Deal helps you make energy-saving improvements to your home and find the best way to pay for them. The improvements that could save you the most energy depend on your home, but typical examples include: insulation, such as solid wall, cavity wall or loft...
Sep 21, 2020 | Government, Ground Source Heat, Housing, Innovation, Renewable
54% of Sweden’s power comes from renewables and this energy is increasingly local. Smart grids are switching Swedish homes from energy consumers to power-making ‘prosumers.’ Local ‘district heating’ plants use excess heat to warm the majority of Swedish homes. Sweden...
Aug 17, 2020 | Housing, Innovation, Renewable, Retrofit, Solar, Technology
Buildings with glass facades typically have a coating on them that reflects and absorbs some of the light, both in the visible and infrared parts of the spectrum, to reduce the brightness and heating inside the building. Rather than throwing that energy away,...
Aug 11, 2020 | Heat Pump, Housing, Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Technology
Regular house bricks could be used to power electronics after a major breakthrough in energy storage technology. Researchers at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, discovered that the cheap and ubiquitous material could be converted into energy storage units...
Aug 6, 2020 | Housing, Hydro, Industry, Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Technology
In-pipe mini-hydro technology LucidEnergy Company mission: to turn miles of gravity-fed water pipelines around the world into generators of clean, environmentally-friendly, renewable energy from in-pipe hydropower. ‘Innovations being implemented into old...
Aug 6, 2020 | Ground Source Heat, Heat Pump, Housing, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit
Guide on heat pumps 2019 by Thermal Earth One method of renewable heating that’s growing rapidly in popularity in the UK is heat pumps. They offer the same comfort as provided by a traditional boiler but deliver that heat in a more efficient, economic, and...
