By David Shewan July 12th, 2013
It’s been a long time coming but it appears the Renewable Heat Incentive is finally, almost here. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has today announced the tariff levels to be paid to homeowners installing low carbon heating technologies...
By David Shewan July 11th, 2013
by Roger Hunt Retrofitting a home to make it more energy efficient and green is both satisfying and worthwhile, or at least it should be. Ideally the process cuts energy bills, reduces carbon emissions and makes the building more comfortable...
By David Shewan March 11th, 2013
This weekend’s Telegraph saw Parity’s Home Energy Masterplan service go “head to head” with a Green Deal assessment. We surveyed the home of Telegraph journalist Sarah Lonsdale, who was interested to find out what advice was available to help her...
By David Shewan February 25th, 2013
The Green Deal has been a long time coming. Since its appearance in the coalition agreement, it has taken the best part of three years to get going. Over that period, the likes of us at Parity – who have...
By David Shewan February 21st, 2013
Here at Parity, we are getting more and more calls from people that start the conversation with some variation on the theme of “is the Green Deal any good for me?” Given the bad press it’s had over recent weeks...
By Chris Newman August 9th, 2012
So what did we go with for our heat source? Biomass? Heat Pumps? Geothermal? Trombe walls with rotating phase change thermal drums (a wild idea from my past!)…… Well, after lots of analysis, it turns out that the best option for...
By Chris Newman September 20th, 2011
Following a slightly leading question from my colleague David, I’ve done some quantitative analysis on the potential savings now and under a hypothetical Renewable Heat Incentive regime. The RHI will now require metered amounts for which I’ve used the modelled kWh savings from a...