Sustainable development

Renewable energy

Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

Technical Memoranda TM 37 Designing for improved solar shading control, 2006
Deals with the issue of solar overheating and the way it can be avoided by appropriate building design. The Building Regulations Part L (2006 edition) include a requirement to limit the effects of solar gains in summer. This covers both new dwellings and new buildings that are not dwellings in England and Wales. Provides additional explanation of the solar overheating guidance in Approved Document L2A, and has been endorsed for this purpose by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM).
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Chelsea Green Publishing

Natural home heating: the complete guide to renewable energy options, 2003
Offers a tour of all the available options including traditional oil and gas furnaces, wood stoves and masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Included is a detailed review of the fuels, systems, technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each option. Pahl teaches homeowners how to retrofit existing heating systems, choose renewable replacements, or design a new house that can be heated comfortably with minimal environmental and financial impact.

Council for National Parks

Briefing Paper Renewable energy and energy efficiency, 2006
Discusses the efforts of national parks to ameliorate climate change, touching on how renewable energy can be sensitively developed in sensitive environments such as national parks.
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Council for the Protection of Rural England

Renewable energy in the UK: financing options for the future, 1995
This publication is divided into 5 main sections; the non fossil fuel obligation - experience to date; success and failure with NFFO 1,2 and 3; issues for future NFFO orders; options for changing the NFFO system and; beyond the NFFO.
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Renewable energy, 1992
Comments by the CPRE on the draft planning policy guidance note on renewable energy.
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Renewable energy in the UK: policies for the future, 1998
This report explains how renewable energy technologies can be used as a tool to meet simultaneously several goals.
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Earthscan Publications

Building with reclaimed components and materials: a design handbook for reuse and recycling, 2006
Addresses the opportunities at the design stage of a project for minimising the generation of waste by the use of recycled components and materials in buildings. It reviews current experience of designing with recycling in mind, the processes by which components and material can be reclaimed and the opportunities for specifying them in construction work.
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Planning and installing bioenergy systems: a guide for installers, architects and engineers, 2006
Bioenergy is relied upon worldwide as a modern solution for local energy supply and waste management. Including clear technical details, data tables and illustrative pictures explaining the fundamentals of different bioenergy projects, this guide reviews the main technologies and offers relevant best-practice examples. Beginning with an overview of the technologies and types of system available, each technology is explained by examining the overall system and its components, planning, operation, maintenance, installation and economics.
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Gazelle Drake Publishing

Renewable energy handbook: a guide to rural independence, off-grid and sustainable living, 2006

Gibbs M Smith Inc

Off the grid: modern homes and alternative energy, 2005
Confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with the way we get and use energy, and explains how it is possible to live in a beautifully designed home using much less. Technologies that can be used to live off the grid (geothermal energy use, wind turbines, photovoltaic arrays, micro hydropower, rainwater collection and reclamation, and more) are explained as author Lori Ryker shows how to choose and incorporate these sources according to geography and climate. Shows how we can take responsibility for our future choices and conveniences now, and proves that off-the-grid living is a concept that can be easily understood and adopted by everyone, regardless of where you live or how much money you make.
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House of Lords

Science and Technology Committee Renewable energy: practicalities (HL Paper 126-I of session 2003-04), 2004
Addresses the practicalities of meeting the Government's targets for renewables set out in the energy white paper and some of their wider implications.
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National Assembly for Wales

Technical Advice Notes (Wales) 8 Planning for renewable energy, 2005
The Welsh Assembly Government has set a target of 4TWh to be produced by renewable energy in order to meet the UK national target of producing 10% of its electrical power production by 2010. This draft TAN considers current production, the capacity required to hit renewable energy targets, and specific issues for a range of available technologies. It is aimed primarily at local planning authorities, but will also be of interest to developers, Government agencies, environmental groups and members of the public.
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Spon Press

Renewable energy resources, 2005
Every country in the world is seeking new energy sources as alternatives to fossil fuels. For the best use of such resources, we need to know how much is available, what the limitations are and how to make efficient devices which will harness the energy in a practical, cost-effective way. This book gives quantitative answers to these questions, using basic alternatives and specialized engineering treatises.

Welsh Office

Technical Advice Notes (Wales) 8 Renewable energy, 1996
This note covers the consideration that should be given to renewable energy projects. Renewable energy covers those energy flows that occur naturally and repeatedly in the environment. The main advantages of using renewable energy are the substitution of valuable energy sources of finite supply, and the limiting of emissions of greenhouse gases.

Worldwatch Institute

Paper 81 Renewable energy: today's contribution, tomorrow's promise, 1988
This publication is divided into six main parts; harnessing water's power; new uses for biomass; power from the sun; tapping the wind; laying the institutional groundwork and; increasing the contribution from renewables.
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