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About Alison Kidd

Research Psychologist

Invite : Student Energy Project Summer 2024

We are looking to select a project which researches or develops an idea which could either reduce our community’s energy or generate new energy from a sustainable source. Projects could be in any of the following areas: domestic heating, food, … Continue reading

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Talybont Energy Trial – Subsidising Home Heating Consultations

Would you like to explore how to improve the energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and costs of heating your home?  Talybont Energy is about to trial individualised remote consultations with ‘The Heating Hub’ for 5 selected homes in our community.  You … Continue reading

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Slowly developing future plans – an update

As promised, we are going to try to keep the community updated as our plans slowly evolve. We are still having the odd technical setback with the turbine operation, the latest being the runner having to be removed for repair. … Continue reading

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Now we’re generating again

Now we’ve ironed out some small teething problems with restarting our hydro after its 7 year hiatus, it’s wonderful to witness energy being generated again. A few weeks ago, our rate automatically dropped from 34kW to our early summer rate … Continue reading

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Water Source Heat Pump – Student Summer project

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded Talybont resident, Billy Merrill-Glover, funding for a student project he proposed for this summer researching the feasibility of using our Mon & Brec canal as the water source for a heat … Continue reading

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