The Initiative

The Blewbury Energy Initiative aims to reduce energy consumption in buildings in Blewbury, and to encourage the use of renewable energy resources. We hope to reduce the amount of coal, oil, gas and electricity used, and to help the global environment.

Latest news

The Department of Energy and Climate Change plans to introduce a substantial programme of feed-in tariffs for small-scale electricity generation in April. This aims to encourage installation of renewable technologies: solar photovoltaic panels, small wind turbines, small-scale hydro, etc. We will have full details on our domestic generation page as soon as they are confirmed.

The scrappage scheme for inefficient old boilers is described in our section on grants for energy improvements; it is run by the Energy Saving Trust.