Written by John Piggott of JPEC and published by BSRIA, this guide provides an illustrated overview of the options available for energy storage in buildings, including thermal and electrical energy storage. It discusses the attributes of these systems. It is aimed at designers, facilities managers and occupiers.
Read more →Maintaining a steady supply of things like food, water and energy is essential for our survival. We preserve food and water for storage and keep reserves of fuel for the winter. But as we migrate to using clean energy it gets more difficult. Solar, wind and tidal
Read more →Efficient energy storage has always been one of the biggest challenges in engineering, which is why even in the 21st Century, we are still reliant on the chemical energy stored in fossil fuels for the majority of our heat, power and transport. In power generation, the solution
Read more →A lot has been written recently about the role of natural gas in the decarbonisation of UK energy supplies. Gas is a convenient and ‘clean’ energy source; far better for the environment than dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil. But it still contains carbon and recent
Read more →I think that now is a good time to take a fresh look at the role of waste to energy (WtE) in the UK; but perhaps not at the large scale that it has been used before. Smaller WtE project with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) are
Read more →Like many in the energy industry, I have always thought of gas as a clean, abundant, cheap and relatively low carbon fuel which at the very least would be part of an interim stage on the way to a decarbonised UK. I also expect gas to play
Read more →At long last, a voluntary code of practice for heat network operators came into being in November 2015. The ‘industry led’ initiative is managed by the newly formed Heat Trust and sets out deal with some of the fundamental market differences between people with their own central
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