David Ferguson joined Locogen last year as Senior Engineer. He is based in Inverness and is focused on delivering off gas grid renewable heating to our clients in the north of Scotland. Here, he talks about his passion for using renewables to help lower energy bills and move away from the polluting fossil fuel heating […]
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Duncan Steven is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Strathclyde who has recently joined the consultancy team here at Locogen. He’s already making an impact on key projects and during his first few months at the company he has been working on the design aspect of district heating schemes, as well as domestic-scale
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On 22 November Scotland’s Minister for Energy, Connectivity & the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse, gave a Ministerial Statement on the Energy Efficient Scotland programme. It focused on the Scottish government’s desire to create a credible framework for decarbonising heat. The statement was well timed. Uncertainty around the future of the Feed-in Tariff and dramatic cuts to
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ocogen’s David Linsley-Hood tells us how he was inspired to get involved in renewable energy and ponders the future for renewable heat. How did you get into renewables? It was a bit by chance. I was training as a geotechnical engineer when I got into a discussion with a professor about the future of world
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Locogen is delighted to announce the acquisition of Renewable Energy Engineers Ltd. a specialist renewable heat company based in Glasgow. Renewable Energy Engineers was founded in 2004 and has completed hundreds of projects across a variety of technologies, including air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, biomass, district heating and biomass CHP. The acquisition
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The success of renewable technologies such as onshore and offshore wind, solar PV and hydro has contributed to the large-scale decarbonisation of the electricity grid. But in order to meet our climate change targets, attention is turning towards heat. As can be seen in the diagram below, in Scotland, 51% of the energy we consume
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According to the National Grid, local generation could make up more than two thirds of the total capacity of the energy system by 2050. This is the prediction for one of the four ‘Future Energy Scenarios’ just published by the UK System Operator. This ‘Community Renewables’ outcome would deliver rapid decarbonisation as well as substantial
Local Generation to Reach 65% of Grid Capacity by 2050? Read More »
The Tinwald anaerobic digestion facility is a 1MW project in Dumfries and Galloway, developed by Amicus Renewables with the predominately grass silage feedstock supplied by local farms. Locogen acted as Principal Contractor, Principle Designer and Project Manager for the development, which began construction in March 2015 and passed its G59 witness test in December 2015.
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