Energi Investments plc has recently completed fitting Solar PV C21e tiles to roofs of houses for property developer Mark Oliver Homes on homes being built in Liversedge for their client Connect Housing. The total value of the contract was £240,000. This is an alternative Solar PV that is integrated into each roof and has a visually appealing finish. The tiles are available in to forms; one is compatible with interlocking tiles and the other is compatible with slates. This is another example of Energi working with house builders in the aid to reduce CO2 in new homes being built.
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Friday, December 4th, 2009Britain To Shift To Smart Grid, Meter Systems
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Date: 03-Dec-09
Country: UK
Author: Kwok W. Wan
LONDON – Britain is to shift to a smart energy system, including a national smart grid, which should pave the way to a low carbon future that includes large wind farms, more efficient heating systems and electric vehicles.
The government said smart meters, which provide real-time information to consumers about energy usage, and smart grids, which give real-time data about power demand and generation across the network, were integral for Britain to hit its carbon targets.
The Department of Energy and Climate Chance (DECC) estimated the cost of replacing the country’s 47 million meters with smart meters by 2020 to be around 8.6 billion pounds ($14.25 billion) and will publish a detailed smart grid route map in early 2010.
“Smart grids will help manage the massive shift to low carbon electricity such as wind, nuclear and clean fossil fuels,” energy minister Lord Hunt said on Wednesday.
“Globally the business of developing smart grids has been estimated at 27 billion pounds over the next 5 years and the UK has the know-how to be part of that.”
It is the first time the government has talked about a smart grid, and it will provide 6 million pounds to develop smart meter technologies. The energy regulator Ofgem will make 500 million pounds available over the next five years for large scale smart grid trials.
The government also called for communications across the new national smart grid to be managed centrally, while maintaining metering competition.
All suppliers would be obliged to use the central function under license.
DECC said utility companies would be responsible for installing smart electricity and gas meters in all British homes and most small businesses by the end of 2020.
Smart meters are seen as a first step toward creating smart grids and could reduce energy demand by cutting power to appliances that do not need continuous power, such as washing machines and laptops with batteries.
Director of British Gas smart metering, Peter Allison, said it estimated energy savings from smart meters to be around 2-3 percent, around the same as government estimates.
Full story available at: planetark.org/enviro-news/item/55763