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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Mountain top carbon saving
Last Saturday, a couple of us from Talybont Energy joined a cross-community project led by Pip Woolf, a Llangynidr based artist and Director of The Green Valleys. Pip has initiated a novel experiment to see if laying down sheets of … Continue reading
Cash rewards for low carbon electricity and heating
Households can earn £900 a year by installing solar panels on their roofs as part of a new Government scheme to pay people to generate their own electricity. Under the deal, which will start from April this year, households will … Continue reading
Simple Guide to Feed-in-Tariffs
Tesco’s has issued a simple guide to Feed-in-Tariffs addressing the issue of domestic purchase of either solar hot water heating or PV panels. If you are considering doing either, the government is certainly making sure it’s in your interests to … Continue reading
Planning in the Beacons for Solar and PV Panels
On a recent visit to the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority (BBNPA) planning surgery the planning implications for adding solar and/or PV panels to domestic premises has been confirmed and planning guidance on this will be published soon by BBNPA. … Continue reading
Wales' 2050 goal to provide all local energy by low carbon electricity production.
In a major step to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon-energy economy in Wales, Jane Davidson, Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, today launched the Welsh Assembly Government’s Energy Policy Statement This statement explains what we will do and what … Continue reading
Sustianable Energy without the Hot Air
There is a really excellent Podcast by Professor David Mackay (author of ‘Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air)‘ He addresses two questions:- 1. Could the UK live on its own renewables given our current rate of energy consumption (an average … Continue reading
Welcome to Talybont-on-Usk Energy
Talybont-on-Usk Energy is a community company with its own 36kW hydro electric turbine. We invest our income from the turbine in energy saving and sustainable living projects in our community in the Brecon Beacons. You can read about the Talybont … Continue reading
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527kg CO2 saved in first 2 weeks of Car Project
Our 2010 experiment is to see if 11 households in Talybont-on-Usk can reduce their CO2 emissions from personal car travel by 10% by using two zero carbon community cars (one electric and one biodiesel) in place of our own cars. … Continue reading
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