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Andrew Ferrand Stobard & Associates
Berkeley Group PLC
Biffa Waste Services Ltd
Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Business Taskforce/Cambridge University
CE Electric UK
Compass Environment and Sustainability Group (CESG)
Country Land and Business Association (CLA)
Davies, P
Doug Marriott Associates
EDF Energy
Energy Networks Association (ENA)
Energy Saving Trust
energywatch
Engineering Forum for Energy (EFE)
E.ON UK
Two additional items:
1/ A diesel fuel version of the "Whispergen" is now available, see website below and brochure attached. This opens the way for all buildings not connected to a gas main to install "mini chp". And once Biofuels are fully available for automotive use, to use this fuel instead of petroleum based diesel (see http://www.whispergen.com/main/dcwhispergen/)
This should be especially beneficial to rural areas, which in principle could become self sufficient in heating and electrical energy to a large extent. given a local source of biofuels.
The standard gas powered Whispergen should be able to be adapted to run off the methane gas which can be produced from farm manure and slurries.
2/. Identifying the best DG opportunities.[Your Question No. 1]
Technical excellence aside, it is suggested that the best opportunities as those which are most capital cost effective. Here one should take into account the fiscal treatment of capital equipment installations, and their maintenance costs, plus the anticipated inflation of fuel/electricity costs from conventional sources. The "fuel" cost of much DG equipment being essentially free.
Two approaches can be considered.
The first based on money and the attached program SUSTENG.xls offers a calculation method for this This applies to trading concerns only, and not to "non profit" organisations, communities [unless trading] and householders.
Also attached is a diagram of a possible outcome based on a Solar PV installation in S.Wales:
We are pleased to attach our Response to the Call for Evidence for the review of barriers and incentives to distributed electricity generation.
As the leading urban regeneration company of brownfield land in the South-East, we are keen to put forward the developer's perspective. We are currently working on a number of mixed-use development schemes where combined heat and power, tri-generation or renewable technologies are to be used, or are being actively considered, totaling in excess of 5,700 residential units. Our experience is that the present regulatory, planning and competition regimes and the commercial imperatives of development do not always sit comfortably together. Notwithstanding this, we recognise the importance of the development of distributed energy to addressing climate change and security of energy supply.
We fully support this debate and our Group Chief Executive, Tony Pidgley, is keen to meet with representatives of the DTI and Ofgem to discuss further, at strategic level, the issues we have highlighted in our Response.
Response from the Berkeley Group Plc