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 is implementing a Feed-In Tariff for small-scale electricity generation in April. This will encourage installation of renewable technologies: solar photovoltaic panels, small wind turbines, small-scale hydro, etc. They have also proposed a Renewable Heat Incentive to encourage solar hot water, heat pumps, and other sources of heating, to begin in April 2011. There is information on both of these on our domestic generation page.

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. The number of grants available is very limited, so do not delay if you might be interested.