GBE Appliance Energy Checklist
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Power and energy supply
- On site renewable energy is best for low carbon emissions
- On site battery storage may be a sensible addition but consider a fire-resistant enclosure
- Electric vehicles battery can be used as a battery back-up for uninterrupted power supply in event of a mains brown out
- Mains delivered green tariff is good but suffers from distribution losses
- Mains electricity is next for carbon emissions, since mix of renewables is increasing all time
- Gas is now worse than electricity for carbon emissions
Voltage Optimisation
- Takes out peaks and troughs from mains electricity due to variable inputs from many providers
- Reduces amount you get
- more than you can ever use
- reduce amount you pay
Internet of Things special tariffs
- IoT-ready appliances e.g. boilers and hot water cylinders, can monitor cost of electricity hour by hour and only draw power from mains when price is low or free or when they pay you
- Some service providers prearrange with users that they cannot turn on high demand appliance
- g. kettles during peak demands from mains, but users get cheap electricity at all other low demand times
Metering & Monitoring
- Fix your smart meters in kitchen on show at eye level, visible all time so they don’t get ignored
- Monitor usage and become familiar with energy demand of each appliance and minimise consumption
- With fridge and freezers achieving zero demand will be impossible
- Don’t over-fill kettles unnecessarily
- Put lids on pans to use less energy to get to higher temperatures
- Meters with attitude will stop bad behaviour:
- ‘faster faster faster’,
- ‘dialling in 250 to get to 180 quicker does not work’
- ‘meters that tell you to wait until it achieves first instruction then it will reconsider any conflicting instructions’
Whitegoods
- UK households use £1.2 bn (even before recent price hikes) on electricity for fridges and freezers alone
- Specify and choose most efficient appliances: Efficiency: Grade A++ or better in all cases
- Significant energy savings over life of appliance and of building can be achieved
Water Taps
- Taps offer opportunities for reducing water, energy and carbon demand
- Proximity detection taps will only operate when hands are present, so less risk of taps being left running flooding house
- Because there are no tap handles to turn on, soap or germ residues on taps, do not occur and do not need cleaning so frequently or extensively
- Aerated taps or valves use considerably less water whilst not appearing to do so
- Two stage taps can offer low flow in first position and high flow in second position
Water Valves
- Water reducing valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce high mains pressure to an appropriate flow, so when a tap is open full bore water is sufficient to rinse hands rather than fill a bath
- Water reducing/isolating valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce waste when pipe systems would otherwise need to be drained for maintenance
Insulating hot water and heating pipes
- Wherever pipes run in voids, in back of kitchen units or above floor finishes they should be insulated and boxed in by skirtings or dado panels
Extractor fans
- Moisture vapour and heat from kitchen can find its way out from kitchen towards outdoor air via walls floors or roofs and put their components to test and potentially cause interstitial or surface condensation leading to mould and potential structural failure
- Moisture vapour, evaporated cooking fat, food smells or smoke from all cooking processes can be passive removing via windows, doors, or actively with mechanical extract hoods via pipes to open external air
- A recent introduction is an extractor within a kitchen base unit or island unit within proximity of hot plates or gas rings, it sucks gasses away into base unit and ducts it away to outside air via wall or floor
- See Also: U10 GBE Checklist
Renewable-Energy-Ready Design
- With recent developments in renewable energy (RE)
- particularly tumbling Photovoltaic (PV) solar panel costs
- electric vehicles (EV) and battery storage
- we need to think a bit harder about what we choose and how we use RE
- Future proofing your energy bills
- Understanding your demands
- Reduce demand
- Heating: Insulation, Airtightness, Thermal breaks
- Hot water: Shower heat recovery,
- Internet of Things
- Monitors cost of electricity and only consumes when cheap, free or be paid
- Domestic Hot Water
- Mixergy
- Domestic heating
- “Boiler”
- Thermal storage ‘heat battery’
- Sunamp
- Increase efficiency: Monitor, metering and controls
- Mains power price fluctuations exploitation to get cheap off peak
- For heat and hot water
- Reduce Carbon in supply
- Warning if PV supply is not working
- Use maximum RE before topping up from mains
- not switching to mains
- Use RE renewable energy yourself
- avoid using Gas Oil LPG Coal
- Low voltage circuits to low voltage kit
- Get occupants engaged in behaviour change
Solar orientation and solar access
- Of house, windows, roofs, panels
- Feeding power from roof to mains entry point
Matching energy demand to RE supply
- Orientating panels not just to south and 30 degrees above horizontal
- Introducing batteries to smooth out differences
- Optimising battery installation
- Direct use from PV without transformers wasting energy
- DC low voltage circuit for DC Low voltage kit
BIPV v Alternative
- Arrangement
- Building Integrated PV
- Verses
- above slope ventilated PV
- PVT with thermal heat use
- Risks of
- Under performing PV
- overheating of attic, upper floor or whole house
- Battery storage
- EV on drive
- optimise PV to be charged by Solar PV only not from mains
- Battery storage in garage
- UPS Uninterrupted power supply for fridge/freezer in brown out
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24 Sustainable Development Goals
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
- The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.
- Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who’re furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.
- The creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDGs in every context.
SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 3 Good Health And Well-Being
- See SDG 15
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 6 Clean Water And Sanitation
- See SDG 14
SDG 7 Affordable And Clean Energy
SDG 8 Decent Work And Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities And Communities
- See SDG10 above
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption And Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 14 Life Below Water
- See SDG 6
SDG 15 Life On Land
- See SDG 3
SDG 16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions
SDG 17 Partnerships For The Goals
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GBE Checklist
- Decent Homes (Checklist) G#1571 N#1507
- Refurbishment Decent Homes (Checklist) G#1253 N#1252
- Green Deal Refurbishment (Checklist) G#730 N#752
- Other issues (Checklist) G#1570 N#1506
- Appliance Energy (Checklist) G#41788 (this page)
- Renewable Energy Ready (Checklist) G#41788 (this page)
- Sustainable Kitchen Eco-upgrades to implement today (Checklist) G#
- Indoor Outdoor living (Checklist) G#
- How to Future-proof your energy bills (Checklist) G#
- The Healthy Home: How to create homes that optimise your health (Checklist) G#
- Wellbeing in Design (Checklist) G#
- Approaching Self Build through planning (Checklist) G#
- Your route to project success (Checklist) G#
- MMC Modern Methods of Construction (Checklist) G#
- Sustainable Interiors: How to make a tangible impact (Checklist) G#
- GBE New Build Checklist (Navigation) G#606 N#627
- A10 Project Particulars (Checklist) G#1696 N#1598
- A11 Tender and Contract Documents (Checklist) G#1697 N#1599
- A12 The Site/Existing Buildings (Checklist) G#1698 N#1600
- A38 Construction Waste Management (Checklist) G#1709 N#1611
- A38 Waste (Checklist) G#12806
- A39 Packaging Waste Management (Checklist) G#1712 N#1614
- A90 Performance Specification (Checklist) G#1715 N#1617
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- A93 Performance Testing Off-site Mock-up Test rigs (Checklist) G#1719 N#1621
- A94 Airtightness testing on-site (Checklist) G#1720 N#1622
- A95 Infra-Red Thermographic Surveys (Checklist) G#1721 N#1623
- B11 Prefabricated Building Units (Checklist) G#1634 N#1553
- C Existing Site/Building/Services (Checklist) G#1558 N#1498
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- D11 Soil Stabilisation (Checklist) G#1587 N#1519
- E In situ concrete/Large precast concrete (Checklist) G#649 N#671
- E41 Worked Finishes to Concrete (Checklist) G#723 N#745
- F10 Brick/Block Walling (Checklist) G#1647 N#1561
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- H Claddings Coverings (Checklist) G#1735 N#1635
- H21 Timber Weatherboarding (Checklist) G#11946
- K43 Raised Storage Access Systems (Checklist) G#13934
- L10 Windows (Checklist) G#1605 N#1534
- L10 Windows Rooflights Screens Louvres (Checklist) G#1604 N#1533
- M21 Insulation With Rendered Finish (Checklist) G#9442
- M50 Rubber Plastics Cork Lino Carpet tiling sheeting (Checklist) G#1160 N#1164
- N13 Sanitaryware (Checklist) G#956 N#976
- Z10 Purpose Made Joinery (Checklist) G#1593 N#1524
- Z21 Mortars (Checklist) G#1648 N#
- Z11.2 Purpose Made Metalwork Aluminium (Checklist) G#1739 N#1639
- Z34 Hot Dip Galvanizing (Checklist) G#1879 N#174
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