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Adveco Showcases New Hybrid Packaged Plant Rooms at CIBSE Build2Perform

February 26, 2024November 7, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Accelerate project timescales with offsite constructed heating, hot water and low carbon energy systems. Introducing packaged hybrid systems that help meet new carbon targets. Understand whether continued investment in gas infrastructure is still viable. Hot water and heating specialist Adveco, will be exhibiting its first hybrid packaged plant room systems for heating and hot water … Read more

Green Heat Roadmap highlights the challenges of achieving Net Zero by 2050

February 26, 2024October 28, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Green Heat Roadmap Urgently Needed for Net Zero by 2050

A new report launched by Minister for Climate Change Lord Duncan on 15 October 2019, calls for an urgent Green Heat Roadmap by 2020 to scale low carbon heating technologies. The 80% 2050 carbon emission reduction target relative to 1990 already required over 20,000 households to switch to low-carbon heating every week between 2025 and … Read more

Hybrid Approach

March 24, 2025October 14, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Adveco’s Technical Director Bill Sinclair discusses the energy challenges facing facility managers when it comes to achieving sustainability across the built estate in the latest issue of Tomorrow’s FM Magazine. Read the full article here

Micro-CHP Becomes The Smarter Choice For Lower Cost Energy

July 31, 2024August 12, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Under new laws introduced by the government, the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) guarantees small businesses installing new micro combined heat and power (m-CHP) up to 50kW, such as the Adveco TOTEM, and solar photovoltaic (PV) panels will receive a payment for exporting electricity to the grid from the start of 2020. Energy suppliers with more … Read more

Is Hydrogen The Long Term Answer To Decarbonising Commercial Buildings?

March 24, 2025July 4, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Can hydrogen decarbonising your commercial building?

The UK Government’s announced drive towards Net-Zero is to be lauded, but in truth, there is no utopian response that completely satisfies all criteria. So, the search continues for the most cost-effective and robust path of transformation for the commercial sector. What is clear is that technologies that can leverage existing infrastructure and supply chains … Read more

The European Power Struggle

February 26, 2024June 3, 2019 by Gary Marshall

The UK makes a significant advance in the reduction of coal as a power source, but renewables still have a long way to go to be a practical replacement for all fossil fuels. A key step in the transition towards a net-zero carbon economy, Britain set a new eight-day record for going without coal-powered energy … Read more

UK framework sets agenda for building and construction sector to police its carbon emissions

March 24, 2025May 17, 2019 by Gary Marshall

Despite the cited success of reduction of emissions in line with the Government’s Carbon Budgets, we are well aware that much of this success has come from easy wins, such as closing operations at coal-burning power stations. The final push to zero carbon by 2050 is the real challenge, as the gap between effort/expenditure and … Read more

BEIS introduces Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) for ‘small-scale’ low carbon renewables

March 24, 2025January 9, 2019 by Gary Marshall

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced a new Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) to replace the flat rate Feed in Tariff (FIT) payments, remunerating small-scale generators with a price per kilowatt hour for exported electricity to the grid. These prices will be set by the suppliers (those with more than 250,000 … Read more

New Environmental Reporting and Taxation Framework Still a SECRet to Most UK Businesses

February 26, 2024December 17, 2018 by Gary Marshall

SECR Streamline Energy and Carbon Reporting

Conceived to reduce administrative burdens, raise awareness of energy efficiency, reduce bills, and save carbon, the Streamline Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR) is a new, mandatory reporting regime that will replace Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) and greenhouse gas (GHG) reports. As a public document, SECR will show what companies are, or are not doing, to … Read more