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.
July'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… [94 views in Jul]
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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… [34 views in Jul]
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Quiz: How Much of an Energy Expert Are You?: We’re all aware that we need to be saving energy, lowering our bills and cutting our carbon footprints – after all we’re constantly… [20 views in Jul]
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Set Up a Community Swap Shop: For any community looking to move to a lower carbon, more sustainable lifestyle, reducing waste has an obvious appeal. While recycling and composting… [20 views in Jul]
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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… [18 views in Jul]
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Solar Energy Facts & Trivia: If the Sun went out right now, it’d be eight minutes before we knew anything about it – that’s how long the light takes to travel the distance to… [18 views in Jul]
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