Energy World March 2018

Has the UK government fallen back in love with energy efficiency? This is the question addressed in our viewpoint article from EEVS, which starts our major feature on energy efficiency this month. With a second round of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) – see page 14 – on the near horizon, this is a good time to ask the question. A further article compares state and local support for energy efficiency in the US with the moves by President Trump’s federal government to begin to roll-back some of the progress made on efficiency at a national level.

The feature also looks at the scope for poorer consumers to make energy savings, the efficiency with which cables transmit electricity, a new energy efficiency programme from the government of Israel, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in heat loss surveys.

Our second theme is carbon capture and storage (CCS). The first of two articles suggests that, far from being a peripheral technology, CCS is an essential part of the fight against climate change. The second piece examines a proposed scheme that would get CCS moving in north-east Scotland.