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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.
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