11 June 2025
Tees Valley Net Zero and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) Programmes
Supporting 670 businesses across the Tees Valley Overview The Tees Valley is home of many businesses, many of which are central to the UK’s industrial base and net zero ambitions. Funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), the Tees Valley Net Zero (TVNZ) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) programmes were designed to help local […]
Read story2 June 2025
Clean energy support to continue, with more help for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Businesses across our region have been urged to make the most of fresh support to slash their energy bills and form strategies to cut carbon emissions. The new wave of funding and support comes as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), with the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) receiving £21.5million from Government to […]
Read story9 May 2025
Iberian Blackout Causes and Solutions
The major power outage on 28th April affected millions of customers. The backout occurred during a time of high levels of renewable generation and this has quickly been made a scapegoat for this outage. Here we explain the sequence of events leading to this outage and explain why renewables aren’t really the culprit for this […]
Read story6 May 2025
Navigating BELLA and BEGA Agreements – Strategic Insights for Embedded Generation Projects
The Evolving Regulatory Landscape for Embedded Generation The UK’s transition to a net-zero energy system has accelerated the deployment of embedded generation projects, from solar farms to battery storage. However, navigating the regulatory framework—particularly the choice between Bilateral Embedded Licence Exemptible Large Power Station Agreements (BELLA) and Bilateral Embedded Generation Agreements (BEGA)—remains a critical challenge. These agreements under […]
Read story16 April 2025
Connections Reform – OFGEM Grants Approval
Today marks a major milestone in energy infrastructure reform, as OFGEM has officially approved the G99 Connections Reform process. This achievement is the result of a coordinated national effort involving the National Energy System Operator (NESO), the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), National Grid […]
Read story28 March 2025
Heathrow Airport Substation Fire
The recent fire at North Hyde substation in Hayes, West London, on the eventing of 20th March 2025 lead to the closure of Europe’s busiest airport for most of Friday 21st March 2025. This has been a very interesting event to follow as electricity grid professionals around the country and world wonder what sequence of […]
Read story24 March 2025
UK Sustainability Regulations 2025: What Your Business Needs to Know
The UK’s regulatory landscape is rapidly transforming sustainability into a fundamental business imperative. Recent updates to environmental legislation and related frameworks create a more demanding compliance environment. Organisations must utilise 2025 as a critical preparation period to address increasingly stringent ESG requirements, enhance supply chain transparency, and develop robust strategies to meet ambitious carbon reduction […]
Read story6 February 2025
BringAbout – A Smarter Way to Track and Reduce Emissions
Simplifying Carbon Management with BringAbout As businesses worldwide work towards Net Zero, having the right tools to measure, track, and reduce emissions is essential. BringAbout, Decerna’s carbon accounting platform, is designed to help businesses streamline their sustainability efforts by providing a comprehensive and user-friendly emissions management system. Key Features of BringAbout 1. Full-Scale Emissions TrackingBringAbout […]
Read story8 August 2024
Are We Winning the Climate Battle? Planetary Boundaries Framework Reveals More Complexities
Written by: Mo Abbasi As we navigate the complexities of environmental crises in our time, it is crucial to examine our progress to understand the full scope of the challenge we face. While climate change often dominates headlines, research suggests that our environmental concerns need to extend beyond this singular focus to be able to […]
Read story1 March 2024
Navigating UK Grid Connections: G99 and G100
The world of high voltage (HV) and extra high voltage (EHV) generation connections is often shrouded in mystery, with a dismal 15% success rate for developers. This translates to a staggering 85% of applications failing, leaving dreams of innovative projects unrealized. But why? The culprit often lies in misplaced applications, or the wrong application type […]
Read story30 April 2023
Net Zero – an SME’s first steps
Climate change and energy use is at the forefront of everyone’s minds as both summer temperatures and energy bills continue to hit record highs. The UK government has set a target of achieving net zero by 2050, but what does this actually mean for SMEs and how can we use these targets to benefit our […]
Read story16 February 2023
Decerna celebrates international day of women and girls in science 2023
We take a look at some of the work decerna has done over the past year, and the people who contributed to this work
Read story21 July 2020
Decerna is still fully operational during the COVID-19 pandemic
During these challenging times, we are still providing renewable energy, energy storage, energy efficiency and LCA services.
Read story10 February 2020
EV car blog – 1 year in
It seems like five minutes ago, but it has actually been one year since I bought my first electric vehicle. I only realised this when I had to tax it – for free of course. Technically we had already placed a deposit on a Kia E Niro, but that wasn’t going to turn up until […]
Read story28 November 2019
Importance of maintenance of solar thermal systems
Recently I was looking at a colleagues’ hot water system and pointed out that his solar thermal system had no pressure in it. He assured me that the local installer had said it didn’t need recharging and that the system was working properly. So, what is the point of having pressure in the system? Well, […]
Read story15 October 2019
Are you being LED astray?
LEDs are great aren’t they? Low energy, long lifetime, great colour rendering, instant switch on, compatible with a wide range of controls, low cost… I remember seeing an LED for the first time when I was about 7 years old. It was a tiny red power indicator for a hi-fi amplifier in my dad’s friend’s […]
Read story20 September 2019
Heat pumps vs gas boilers (Part II)
This is an update on a previous blog from the 24th of June 2013, updated to take account of developments with Air Source Heat Pumps and the decarbonsing of the UK electricity grid. Air Source Heat Pumps Air source heat pumps use electricity to generate heat much more efficiently than normal electric heaters. They operate […]
Read story17 July 2019
Tea boiler energy use
Everyone is a creature of habit. One of my habits is to go round switching off lights. Sometimes I can be a bit over zealous about this and hear an angry voice from the office toilets as I “do my rounds”. The Decerna offices have the latest energy efficient LED lights but the controls haven’t […]
Read story3 October 2018
New build estates may not be able to cope with renewables
Due to the electrical connections on homes, new build housing estates have issues with large amount of renewables
Read story27 July 2018
What is G98?
Why the new standard? Well, the Energy Networks Association has revised G83 to both modernise the standard and to take into account newer technologies which are now commercially available. The new standard also falls in line with the current European standard EN 50438. The new standard applies to micro-generation up to 16A per phase (3.68kW […]
Read story5 February 2018
What is SolarCoin and does it matter to the UK Solar Industry?
What is SolarCoin, and could it help the renewable energy industry?
Read story12 December 2015
The Paris Agreement
A blog on the Paris Agreement, as agreed on the 12th December 2015
Read story5 November 2014
Decerna discussion paper – COP of water heating technologies
Discussion paper of the relatative COPs of solar thermal, thermodynamic and high temperature heat pumps - submitted to the MCS
Read story6 August 2014
Decerna updates off grid PV system
NDE worked with The Whiteburnshank Trust on a 2kWp PV array for the Whiteburnshank cente
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