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To ensure the effectiveness of their retrofit initiatives, CHP has focused on collecting and analysing real-world data on home performance. They have partnered with technology providers like Switchee to install smart thermostats that monitor and optimise heating, providing detailed insights into actual home performance. This data-driven approach allows CHP to go beyond the limitations of standard Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and tailor retrofit measures to the specific needs of each property as well as put individual support for customers where needed. A great example of progress and partnership with CHP in this comprehensive document focusing on sustainable retrofit in housing. #Switchee #Retrofit #CHP #UKHousing

Residential and commercial stock retrofit is a challenge for all in the Property sector. A great insight here as to how CHP are tackling the problem with their stock. Food for thought indeed... tech and the built environment coming together for positive effect. Please do share your thoughts and experiences so we can all learn on this journey. #bigpicturebanking

AlphaReal estimates that UK #insurers have invested over £1.5bn into commercial ground rents (CGRs) over the last c.18 months. What are the drivers of the increased level of interest in the market, and why are insurers investing in CGRs? Read our paper, 'Why are UK insurers investing in commercial ground rents?': https://lnkd.in/ekAFnRUR and if you'd like to discuss, contact Boris Mikhailov, Head of Client Solutions or Patrick Grant, Head of Long Income. #commercialgroundrents #secureincome #realassets

📚 Weekend Reading 📚 Lisa Cairns, from IRT Surveys , discusses how data and technology can help housing providers make smarter retrofit decisions. #ukhousing #socialhousing

News from HUD HUD has released updated Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), affecting Elements, Leading Edge, and Comprehensive cohorts. Here's what you need to know: 1) Expanded eligibility for the Elements cohort to properties closing on a recapitalization transaction between May 11, 2023, and July 31, 2024. 2) Enhanced clarity on HUD's management of waiting lists and fund allocation. 3) Modified cap on awards for sponsors. 4) Extended deadlines for the Fourth Application Period for Leading Edge (May 15, 2024) and Comprehensive (June 12, 2024) cohorts. https://lnkd.in/eBwB35jx

#infrastructure #blackrock #gip #generalatlantic #actis #institutionalinvestors So, what drives these two deals - which some market observers have interpreted as heralding a new wave of market consolidation and the end of the independent infrastructure fund manager?

Some good news on AR6 this week Mr Miliband…..but about that 2030 clean power mission and 50GW OSW target……there be questions 🧐 When will we see faster permitting? Will there be a properly scaled auction next year (budget of £2.5bn+)? And as Tracy Gilbert MP rightly asks in this debate - can UK Government do more to help Scottish Government reach a positive and immediate decision on one project that is essential to get anywhere near those targets - #BerwickBank? 🙏 The Berwick Bank s.36 application has now been with Scottish Government for over 20 months and counting - that’s about as long as the entire build phase for Scotland’s biggest wind farm Seagreen. 🤓 As Tracy points out, not only would a positive consent for Berwick Bank support targets, it would help unlock the billions of pounds of investment in the UK supply chain that is stuck until there is greater certainty. 🏦 I have seen firsthand, in Tracy’s constituency, and beyond, how delays like this translate to stymied investment. There are major new supply chain facilities crawling forward when they could be flying ahead, creating thousands of jobs right now. 🚧 That’s frustrating for everyone, including politicians, but the tools to accelerate growth through investment lie in their hands - deliver faster consent decisions and CfD auctions sized to match the 2030 targets and investment, jobs and growth will rapidly follow. 📈 Projects cannot be built and jobs can’t be created on ambitions, targets and mission statements alone. Decisions and actions create the certainty needed to accelerate growth. While AR6 was a small step forward, Governments need to focus on bringing certainty to the UK pipeline by focusing on consents, particularly #BerwickBank to achieve their ultimate objective - delivery. 👌 #offshorewind #AR6 #CfD #consents #urgency #climateemergency #action #delivery

BlackRock’s aquisition of GIP sent the infrastructure world buzzing earlier in January. But what does this aquisition mean for the African infrastructure market? Infrastructure as an asset class has over the past couple of decades grown to a US$1 trillion market. Africa’s contribution stands at just under US$100 billion. A low figure in the greater scheme of things but this is because most projects are rated below investment grade. Now, as its founder Adebayo Ogunlesi mentioned, GIP usuallys invests in below investment grade infrastructure. The aquisition is an opportunity for BlackRock to leverage its large capial base and GIP’s expertise, in making more investments in more African infrastructure. As mentioned in the below article. BlackRock already has a minority stake in Kenya’s Lake Turkana 310MW wind power project. #infrastructure #Africa #blackrock #GIP

What will the new Ofsted Report Card, set for September 2025, look like? The DfE and Ofsted says it is going to consult on it, but it is clear examples from elsewhere in the public sector are already proving influential to early thinking. Ellen Peirson-Hagger has looked at those models in detail below... https://lnkd.in/erGAAJMY