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.
December's Most Popular Articles...
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Set Up a Local Energy Forum: Setting up an energy forum is a good way to stimulate informed and constructive debate about how issues of energy efficiency and sustainability impact the… [490 views in Dec]
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The Facts About Light Bulbs: With everyone advising you to replace your existing light bulbs with low energy ones – and supermarkets regularly offering to sell them to you at mega-cut… [260 views in Dec]
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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… [210 views in Dec]
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Wood-burning FAQ: There's nothing quite like a real fire - but for many people there are a one or two questions about it's suitability, benefits and costs to be considered first. Below… [190 views in Dec]
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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… [190 views in Dec]
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The Energy Cost of Christmas: We all know about the financial cost of Christmas. Even if we manage to put it out of our minds for the duration of the actual festivities themselves,… [120 views in Dec]
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