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How Newspapers Report Renewable Energy
A new report from PIRC (Public Interest Research Centre) looks at the attitudes of various UK media to renewables especially wind. Different papers portray renewable energy in different ways as you would expect but when they looked at the overall … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour change, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Talybont-on-Usk
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Selling the electricity created by hydro’s
Talybont Energy currently sells the hydro electricity created by the 36Kw Talybont turbine to Good Energy via a system referred to as ROCs – Renewable Obligation Certificates. Each energy supplier, like Good Energy, has to buy a certain amount of … Continue reading
Where the UK gets its electricity from
Posted by AC I must admit to not being a numbers person, I don’t remember them very well nor am I very good in putting them into any kind of context, so generally I have to write them down and … Continue reading
Can you do the sums?
On election day, have a go at the Prime Ministers job with this very developed emissions calculator published in The Guardian. Your job is to cut the UK’s emissions by 80% – not easy is it….
Car project progress in April
It is now the end of our 3rd month of the car project (April) and the two cars (Bluebell and Mr Chips) have travelled a total of 6455 miles (38% of our target mileage) and saved 2.5 metric tonnes of … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiesel car, carbon saving, community car share, Electric Car, Talybont energy, Talybont-on-Usk
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Tanzanian Environmental Journalists Visit Talybont Turbine
Talybont Energy was contacted by The Thomson Foundation , which is involved in training environmental journalists internationally. Under a UNESCO Wales funded project, they hosted a small group of Tanzanian environmental journalists who visited Welsh projects. They came to visit … 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
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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Tagged 100% biodiesel, biodiesel car, community car, Electric Car, talybont car project, Talybont-on-Usk
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Bluebell's Charging Point at Henderson Hall
Talybont Energy is very grateful to the Henderson Hall committee for allowing us to install an external, lockable charging point for Bluebell (our electric car) at the community hall in Talybont. We plan to install PV panels on the roof … Continue reading
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Tagged Electric Car, Henderson Hall, Talybont energy, Talybont-on-Usk
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The Latest on the Electric Bike Trial
The 2 Talybont Energy electric bikes have now done 1700 miles between them and roughly 800 of these have replaced miles which would have otherwise been driven by car. Around 90 people have now been on the bikes (at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brecon, Bwlch, e-bike, e-bikes, electric bike, electric bike trial, Llanfihangel, Llanfrynach, Llangorse lake, Llangynidr, Pencelli, Talybont-on-Usk, Talyllyn, Tredegar
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