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Wrap then Heat – making our buildings healthier and cheaper to run
A group of leading companies within the energy sector have today outlined a new strategy for making our homes healthier, cheaper to run and more sustainable. Wrap then Heat, a report published by the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) recognises that supporting...
Get Voting – 4th May
Whilst it is still very unclear what BREXIT will mean one thing is certain – it has increased interest in politics; record numbers of students are applying to study politics. So with this increased awareness of all things political, perhaps the time is right for the...
Sustainable Energy Association welcomes housing providers to its membership
Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) is one of the largest locally-based housing groups in the East Midlands, managing around 9,000 homes, in properties worth over £500 million and housing more than 15,000 tenants in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire,...
A ‘whole house’ approach to improving our homes
When we think of buildings and homes what springs to mind? A physical construction, a shelter with a roof, windows and doors where people live or work? Is a home the same as a building or is a home a more emotional thing – a building yes, but one with which we have a...
PRESS RELEASE – SEA elects new Chair of Executive Committee – Richard Burnley
The Sustainable Energy Association has elected Richard Burnley, Managing Director of Kingspan Insulation Britain & Ireland as Chair of its Executive Committee. Richard Burnley is the Managing Director at Kingspan Insulation Britain & Ireland, one of the...
Healthier Homes Roundtable
As part of our policy development and engagement, we hosted a social housing and local authority roundtable focused on the installation of energy efficiency measures and low carbon heating on Tuesday 22nd November. The majority of social housing properties were built...
Hats off to Birmingham
As a Geordie living on the south east of England, I had, until I joined the Sustainable Energy Association (based in Solihull) four years ago, regarded the Midlands as somewhere I passed through on the way to visit family up north.I have over the years attended many...
Recticel Insulation joins the Sustainable Energy Association
Recticel Insulation and the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) are pleased to announce that Recticel has joined the Association as an Executive Member.Recticel Insulation is based in Stoke-on-Trent, where they produce polyisocyanurate (PIR) products which are used...
No home left behind; ensuring retrofit of the hard to treat
In the years 2004-2014, household energy use fell by a fifth. A number of factors have been attributed to this including more efficient boilers and appliances, adoption of low-energy light bulbs and high energy costs (before the current drop in fossil fuel prices). It...
What makes an RHC support Scheme Successful?
The SEA would like to bring the following to the attention of members and other parties with an interest in renewable heating and cooling strategies. The Energy Saving Trust is currently involved in an Intelligent Energy Europe funded project called 'FROnT’, which...
Sustainable Energy Association Elects new Vice-President
The Sustainable Energy Association announced today that Edwin Bannock MBE, chair of the Board Ice Energy Technologies Ltd, has been elected as its new Vice President and chair of its Executive Committee, to serve for the next two years.Commenting on the result, Edwin...
Join-the-dots energy efficiency policy
By Fraser Wallace George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, recognises the private sector is a powerful vehicle to deliver goods and services in a cost-effective manner. In his Autumn Statement (25th November 2015) he stated, ‘there is no growth and no jobs...