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Meet Simon Crowe: Driving Decarbonisation and Renewable Energy in Commercial Real Estate
12th March, 2025We sat down with the Low Carbon Alliance Managing Director to find out how he is tackling the renewables challenge and what makes him tick!
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The 7th Carbon Budget: What It Means for Commercial Property
26th February, 2025The UK is moving towards an 87% emissions reduction by 2040. That means big changes ahead for commercial property.
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Building data monitoring systems are business critical
9th October, 2024Building data monitoring systems are business critical for the UK’s property sector in achieving net zero and improving EPC ratings.
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Solar Power and Decarbonisation
20th September, 2024Preventing a potential ‘electricity gap’ by committing the country to solar power and other renewable energy sources.
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Closing the Electricity Gap: How Solar Power Can Prevent Electricity Shortages
12th September, 2024The future of energy supply in the United Kingdom has reached a critical juncture. We must start pushing the market on renewables.
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Low Carbon Alliances JV Taiyo Power & Storage Sells 37.3MW Solar Site in Devon to Infinis Solar Developments Limited
2nd August, 2024Taiyo Power & Storage (Taiyo), a joint venture between Kajima and Low Carbon Alliance, has sold its 37.3 Megawatts (MW) greenfield solar project in East Devon at ready-to-build stage, to Infinis Solar Developments Limited.
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Labour’s Landslide: What Does It Mean for Net Zero?
5th July, 2024For the first time in fourteen years, we have a Labour government in a widely predicted landslide result.
But what does this mean for the energy sector and the built environment?
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Valuing Solar Energy as Natural Capital in Our Economic System
28th June, 2024If we hope to have a sustainable future, our economic models need restructuring. Climate change and resource depletion are demonstrating in stark terms the value of natural capital. We must align our corporate and individual behaviours to the environments in which we operate.
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Valuing Actual Building Performance in an EPC World
15th February, 2024Energy Performance of buildings has been on the agenda for over 13 years, since the introduction of Energy Performance Certificates in 2007. But does an EPC value equate to actual building value?
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Default data on EPC ratings – What it is, and how to avoid it
31st January, 2024Learn more about default data; the culprit that’s causing commercial property owners to spend millions on unnecessary work to increase the energy efficiency of their buildings.
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Four key takeaways for energy and net zero from today’s King’s Speech
7th November, 2023We were disappointed to note Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used the King’s Speech today to propose only one bill related to energy and net zero: The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill.
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Government attitude to net zero destabilises business and the climate
2nd October, 2023At Low Carbon Alliance, we believe that the recent deviation by the UK government from the agreed and established green transition plan is both disheartening and confusing for business investment.
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Ofgem Net Zero Duty is a Positive Step Towards a Renewable Energy Future
16th June, 2023This change in duty will help the UK move toward a decarbonised energy system for the future.
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60 SECOND SHORTS 1.How Heat Pumps Work
28th April, 2023With the need to replace fossil fuel-based boilers and look for more efficient renewable energy-derived solutions, many are turning to Heat Pumps for the solution. But, what is a heat pump and how does it work?
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Sale of Twitch Hill Solar Farm to Lynher Energy
6th April, 2023Low Carbon Alliance Ltd today announced the completion of the sale of Twitch Hill Solar Farm on 31st March 2023 with Lynher Energy purchasing the 26.1MW solar farm in Shropshire from the owner and landlord Cheswell Grange.
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INTERVIEW: Turning Brownfields Green – A Golden Opportunity
27th March, 2023Low Carbon Alliance Managing Director, Simon Crowe, discusses the benefits that brownfields offer for power generation with Hilco for their Spring Edition of “Sustainabily Speaking”.
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LCA VIEW: Spring Budget March 23
22nd March, 2023A great deal has been written about the government’s Spring Budget and its disappointing failure to address the climate emergency we face with enough resources, strategy, detail and commitment. We have less than 30 years to completely decarbonise…
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Low Carbon Alliance joins UKGBC Task Group
13th October, 2022Low Carbon Alliance joins UKGBC Renewable Energy Procurement Guidance Task Group. The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has mobilised a 17-strong team of cross-industry experts who will support the delivery of new guidance on renewable energy procurement.
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Harman House EV Charging Solution Completed
30th September, 2022Low Carbon Alliance were initially asked to undertake a review of Electric Vehicle (EV) Chargers at Harman House to assist our Client, Harman House Limited*, meet their sustainability goals and make the property more appealing to tenants.
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Low Carbon Alliance secures planning consent for 25MW solar and storage site
22nd July, 2022Low Carbon Alliance, in partnership with wedding venue Cheswell Grange, has gained planning consent for a 25MW solar and storage facility in Shropshire.
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Low Carbon Alliance Celebrates its Commitment the the Real Living Wage
16th July, 2022As the cost of living crisis continues amid soaring energy prices and the highest levels of inflation in decades, we are proud to have be part of this voluntary benchmark for employers.
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EPCs alone won’t help us achieve Net Zero Carbon
31st May, 2022As the real estate industry manoeuvres to meet stiff carbon reduction targets, our Managing Director and founder, Simon Crowe, has been speaking to investor relations agency Tavistock, on delivering commercial property net-zero ambitions
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Taiyo Power & Storage Website goes Live
1st March, 2022Renewable energy joint venture Taiyo Power and Storage brand and website launched to deliver quality-driven renewable energy projects that have a positive impact for both people and planet
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Joint Venture with Kajima Europe Announced
5th October, 2021Kajima Europe has launched a renewable energy platform to develop solar and battery storage projects across the UK in a joint venture with specialist renewable energy developer, Low Carbon Alliance…
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Net Zero has significant challenges and policy needs significant teeth to tackle it
8th June, 2021Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards were introduced on 1 April 2018. Buildings cannot be leased with an EPC worse than an E rating since this date…
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Built Environment Virtual Pavilion @ COP26
27th May, 2021We have joined forces with UK Green Buildings Council to give the built environment sector a strong voice at 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)…
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*WEBINAR RECORDING* Net Zero Buildings : Is your data good enough?
8th October, 2020How do you start to transform commercial buildings into net zero carbon ones? The starting point is getting good energy data…
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Use Real Data and See the Truth
25th August, 2020The wrongness of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES). When it comes to energy efficiency, there is another way to capitalise on making us all use buildings more efficiently…
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Building Regs: Busted
29th July, 2020“We are Part L compliant” should really read “We design to the bare minimum.” Part L is busted. There it is, I have said it. And I am annoyed at this missed opportunity…
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Net Zero for Real Estate … why bother?
5th July, 2020I started Low Carbon Alliance in January 2010. I had just spent the previous 5 years at HBG/BAM Properties speculatively developing BREEAM Excellent “future-proofed” offices before the credit crunch curtailed my development career…
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