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Energy Advice on Offer in Allestree

Tue, 13 March 2012
More than 50 Derby residents received advice about energy efficiency and domestic renewables when the Fantastic Home visited Park Farm Shopping Centre on 9th March as part of the Allestree and Normanton LEAF project.
 
The Watt Bike, which allows people to have a go at generating energy using leg power, and a display of free energy savings items outside an empty shop unit attracted plenty of shoppers, whilst factsheets, more freebies, display boards from the council and a giant board game inside the shop gave people plenty of information about saving energy.
 
Advice was given out on loft and cavity wall insulaiton, as well as a new grants scheme for solid wall insulation (www.warmstreets.co.uk). Visitors were also interested in solar hot water and photovoltaic panels.
 
The Fantastic Home will be visiting Park Farm Shopping Centre again on Thursday 15th March and Saturday 24th March.
 

Members Needed for Nottinghamshire Wind Turbine Project

Tue, 13 March 2012
East Bridgord Community Energy IPS Ltd is a community group working on an exciting project to install  a medium sized wind turbine (costing £1m) near East Bridgford in Nottinghamshire.
 
They are close to putting in a planning application but are short of people with business, PR, and legal experience (although they would welcome anyone with enthusiasm). 
 
If you want to know more please visit their website. If you would like to be involved, please contact John Chater on 01949 20882 or David Atkins, 01949 20390

 

Sun Comes Out For Greening Beeston Fantastic Home Event

Thu, 8 March 2012
 A drizzly start at the Square in Beeston was not able to dampen spirits for what turned out to be a bustling Greening Beeston Fantastic Home event on Saturday 3rd March with over 100 people attending the event.
 
As the sun broke through and the Saturday morning foot fall increased there was plenty of interest Fantastic Home trailer and the Greening Beeston gazebo with local residents keen to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
 
Ways to insulate solid walls was high on the list of queries raised, a key issue given the prevalence of Victorian house in the area. There was also considerable interest in the range of clever ways of reduce resource use in the home with plenty off free items being given away.
 
Visitors to the exhbition were given freebies worth more thasn

£800 which will save them more than £17,000 on their energy bills in the coming years. They will also save almost 20,000kg carbon dioxide emissions and almost 600,000 litres of water.

 
 

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Thu, 8 March 2012

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Community Group Members Visit Inspiring Research Homes

Thu, 8 March 2012

20 people from around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire recently visited six inspiring research homes at the University of Nottingham.

The group, a mixture of members of community groups that are tackling climate change and staff and elected members from local authorities, were given a guided tour of the Creative Energy Homes Project. The project consists of six houses which each incorporate energy efficient and renewable technology. One home was built as a home would have been in 1930s and has since been retrofitted to try to increase its energy efficiency. A pair of semis have been built from fairly normal building materials, but have been made much more efficient than normal - one has achieved Code Level Four under the Code for Sustainable Homes, and the other Code Level Six.

The tour was well received with one attendee saying that they felt better 'able to inform others with more assurance of different systems.' Another attendee commented that they 'will expect developers to offer energy efficient homes for our community, incorporating the facilities seen today.'

More information about the project is available on their website.

The tour was organised as part of the work of the  Community Climate Action Network.

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