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Talybont Energy Trial – Subsidising Home Heating Consultations

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Alison Kidd

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

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Alison Kidd

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

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Alison Kidd

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

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Alison Kidd

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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Infrared Heating – does it work for people?

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Alison Kidd

I have just finished a research report based on interviews with 20 UK housholds (of all shapes and sizes) who use Infrared (IR) as their main source of heating. You can find the report here: https://theprospectory.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/ir-heating-the-experience.pdf

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