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Me and my clever home: when your house gets its own money
The family feline thrived in its new-found economic role by Steven Harris Part 6 I mentioned in my last post that under government’s new Green Deal programme, your house might gain a financial identity...
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Monitoring monitoring monitoring: easy peasy…
Monitoring with zest by Steven Harris By now, as the sort of person who reads our blog, you will know all about the Feed-In Tariff for renewable electricity and how successful it has been - so...
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Avoiding green exclusion: getting smart to aid fuel poverty
The keenest of memory may recall us receiving some Technology Strategy Board funding to investigate how smart technologies and solar panels can help households on low incomes manage their finances....
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Retrofitting, 15 storeys high
By Gary Hartley Think of the concept of giving a 1960s concrete tower block an ‘eco facelift’ and you might have visions of Del and Rodney dragging rolls of bulk-bought insulation up the stairs of...
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Smart grids: enabling a smart world
Smart grids expert, Stephen Passmore, explains what a smart grid does, our work which tests opportunities for the grid, and how it will benefit households in the future. A sustainable energy future...
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High hopes for a smart future
The smart grid is coming. That’s the message from a survey of global energy executives – 98 per cent of whom say it’s a natural extension to current grid upgrades and a core part of their investment...
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Home heating: what’s your type?
Are you Egocentric or a Planner? A Rationer or a Hands off? Or could you even be a Reactor? We all get labelled for one reason or another, normally to sell us something, but in this case it’s how we...
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2014: An important year for energy saving
David Hall is Executive Director of social enterprise, Behaviour Change. In this blog he outlines three key reasons why this year is likely to be significant for energy saving. After Labour’s price...
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Top tech versus top tips in the home
The collision of smarter homes and smarter phones is bound to throw up some interesting developments. One that has piqued wide interest is the launch of a new thermostat which its makers claim learns...
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Are smart homes a clever move?
Lloyd Alter in the Guardian the other day made a plea for dumb homes and dumb cities, riling against the recent rash of smart everything. I came across this via a tweet from Nick Grant...
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