EWS | DIGEST Shelter says 3m social homes needed to address poverty Government to make solar payment when FiTs closes in March The government is consulting on a payment system for homes and businesses to replace the cancelled Feed-inTariffs (FiT) scheme. Under the proposed plan, a smart export guarantee will be introduced so owners of solar panels can be reimbursed for excess power they send to the Grid. However, the consultation only closes in March, when FiT is due to end, so there is likely to be a period when energy firms will receive this excess power for free. According to energy minister Claire Perry, the new system will protect consumers from having to pay unfair costs. This new scheme could help us build a bridge to the smart energy system of the future, with consumers firmly at its heart not only buying electricity, but being guaranteed payments for excess electricity they can supply to the Grid. Charity says economic benets of investment will outweigh initial costs Housing charity Shelter has called on the government to build more than three million new homes over the next 20 years, to meet soaring demand and address poverty and social-mobility issues. InthewakeoftheGrenfellTowerfire,the charity set up a commission that included former Labour leader Ed Miliband MP, Baroness Intelligent motor software... FMB Fire Curtain New compact side guides, which visually improve product aesthetics Being market leader has customer benefits: Handle more projects Wider range of expertise More experienced employees ...Controls more units than the competition Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, TV architect George Clarke and Grenfell survivor Ed Daffarn. It took evidence from social tenants, 31,000 members of the public and a range of housing experts, before publishing a report, Building for our future: a vision for social housing. This sets out a strategy for ensuring more people can access social housing. The commissioners said politicians must not remain idle when half of young people have no chance of buying a home, private renters on lower incomes spend an average of 67% of their earnings on rent, and almost 280,000 people in England are homeless. Theeconomicbenefitsofamajorsocial housebuilding programme would outweigh the initial costs, according to analysis done for Shelter by Capital Economics. It would require an average yearly investment of 10.7bn during construction, but up to two-thirds of this could berecoupedthroughhousingbenefitsavings and increased tax revenue, the report said. Independently certified to comply with: BS 8524 & EN 1634 Colt People The NEW Colt provide in-house: fire curtain is Design not just a fire Manufacture Project Management curtain... Servicing Gravity fail safe motors... The new FMB fire curtain is an automatic fire protection system with a compact profile, flexible design and smart controls. ...extending the motor life www.coltinfo.co.uk | info@coltinfo.co.uk | 02392 451111 8 February 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Feb19 pp08-09 News.indd 8 25/01/2019 16:14