How to Work with Your Community to Save Energy...
Everyone wants to save energy and working together as a community can be a great way to reduce everyone's fuel bills and energy use, but it's not always easy to know how best to go about it.
Although there are plenty of options - solar power, wind generation, insulation, energy saving devices and the like - there hasn't been a "one-stop" UK resource to offer impartial advice on saving energy as a community.
October's Most Popular Articles...
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Exporting Electricity to the Grid: For many people contemplating producing their own electricity supply by micro-generation, part of the attraction is the possibility of exporting… [82 views in Oct]
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How Can I Extract the Heat in Flues?: The principle of heat recovery is very straightforward – passing hot combustion gases over a heat exchanger of some kind to extract as much… [22 views in Oct]
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Reducing Community Food Miles: While discussions about saving energy tend to focus on ways to reduce our individual domestic consumption, there are other ways to save energy which can… [20 views in Oct]
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What is Micro-Generation?: Micro-generation is the production of heat and power by individuals or communities – typically by renewable energy – enabling them to meet their own… [20 views in Oct]
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Coppiced Willow for Energy: Growing willow for energy is nothing new for the UK – it’s has been done for very nearly the last 40 years – but with today’s mounting interest in both… [20 views in Oct]
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Car Sharing Schemes: Changing the way we use transport is great example of the kind of energy saving initiatives that work best on a community-wide basis – and car sharing schemes are… [16 views in Oct]
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