: Kingspan – fuel poverty and telemetry

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Kingspan Environmental is a division of Kingspan Group PLC that offers affordable environmental solutions for off-mains drainage, rainwater harvesting systems, fuel storage and intelligent telemetry solutions to meet the needs of sustainable building projects. Kingspan Telemetry Solutions Kingspan Environmental is the market leader in oil measurement technologies. The Kingspan Telemetry portfolio comprises of the SonicSignalman which is an easily installed one piece unit that uses technology to...

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: Fuel poverty update

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Stephen Dineen assesses the problem and plans to combat it. The level of fuel poverty in Northern Ireland has been revised downwards following a Department for Social Development-commissioned study. The University of Ulster study revised the 2009 figure of 44 per cent figure to 13 per cent (75,000 households), using a new method of calculation. Previously, the threshold was set at twice the median amount of household income that families in England spent on heating their homes in 1991 (10 per cent...

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: Bryson Energy – tackling fuel poverty

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Bryson Energy’s aim is to ‘energy proof’ homes across Northern Ireland. Bryson Energy, part of the Bryson Charitable Group, Northern Ireland’s leading social enterprise, is committed to tackling fuel poverty and its long-term aim is to ‘energy proof’ homes across Northern Ireland. Bryson Energy is the European energy agency for Northern Ireland and is part of a large network of over 380 energy agencies working across Europe committed to reducing energy usage in the home. Operating as...

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