Your Green Future
Your Green Future is an interactive event which brings together schools and businesses in order to explore the growing job opportunities in a low carbon, resilient economy. Each event investigates the changing face of business, from local sustainable business models to cutting edge technologies, which are generating increasing demand for appropriately skilled young people. Between… read more
Power to transform the South West
Molly Scott Cato, the South West’s Green Party MEP has published a report that shows how the South West has the capacity to be entirely powered by renewable energy by 2050. Written by Link to Energy installer member ‘The Resilience Centre’ it demonstrates how one third of the regions energy needs can be met from marine and… read more
Western Power Distribution Community Chest
The Western Power Distribution Community Chest has just reopened offering community groups a share of £50,000 to install energy saving improvements in their village halls and community facilities. Community buildings across WPD’s network area, which covers areas of the South West of England, South Wales and parts of the Midlands, can apply for up… read more
A good time to invest in Solar Photovoltaics?
The government has recently announced a consultation of the Feed in Tariff scheme. Currently if you install an eligible solar PV system of up to 4Kwp, you are paid 13.39p for every unit of electricity that the system generates. The consultation proposes to reduce this to 1.63p for solar systems of up to 10Kwp! There… read more