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Zero waste to landfill

  • Reference: 2020/1008
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
In December 2018 you published Zero Carbon London: A 1.5C compatible plan, which identified sending zero waste to landfill by 2026 as a London-wide target. What progress have you made towards this?

Heat pumps in London homes (2)

  • Reference: 2020/1007
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
According to your internal analysis, revealed under a Freedom of Information request on 19 Feb 2020, 145,000 heat pumps are needed a year in our city to make the 2050 government target, and 300,000 a year to meet our carbon neutrality targets. What steps are you taking to achieve this goal? ( https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mgla200120-0637_-_foi_res…)

Heat pumps in London homes (1)

  • Reference: 2020/1006
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
How many homes in London currently have heat pumps installed?

Solar and RE:NEW

  • Reference: 2020/1005
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
As part of RE:NEW, how much solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity has been installed since the launch of the Solar Action Plan in 2018?

Potential for Solar PV within the M25

  • Reference: 2020/1004
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
In January 2019, University College London was awarded the contract to produce an online map of annual solar radiation on all roofs and areas of open land within the M25 motorway ( https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/energy/news/2019/jan/ucl-energy-institut…). This would allow for the potential for solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations at every building and suitable site to be estimated. When will this map finally be made public?

Solar potential on the Transport for London estate

  • Reference: 2020/1003
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
Transport for London (TfL) has carried out detailed studies of the total solar potential across its estate, including mapping the total potential across all TfL-owned rooftops, and studies on larger land holdings and trackside areas. When will these studies be made publicly available?

Third phase of Solar Together London

  • Reference: 2020/1002
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
Mayoral Decision (MD) 2503 states that the third phase of Solar Together London was due to take place in November 2019. Has this happened?

Wall insulation for carbon neutral homes

  • Reference: 2020/1001
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
According to your internal analysis, revealed under a Freedom of Information request on 19 Feb 2020, 160,000 homes a year need to be retrofitted with measures like wall insulation to meet our carbon neutrality targets. How will you take steps to achieve this? (https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mgla200120-0637_-_foi_res…)

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) enforcement

  • Reference: 2020/1000
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
As of April 2019, no measures have been taken by local authorities to enforce the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) in the first year of this new regulation. What work are you doing to help increase enforcement activity in every London borough?

Energy efficiency in homes

  • Reference: 2020/0999
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
Research from the London Assembly Research Unit shows that at least £22 billion is needed just to bring our homes up to EPC level C. Is this figure in line with your own calculations and, if not, can you detail the research or analysis you have done to work out this cost?
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