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Tuesday 6th July 8-9.45pm Renewable Energy At Home

This evening was a great success with about 60 people and some very lively discussions. There are pictures from the evening on the Past Events page. The feedback was also very positive.

Peter Melhuish from the Energy Savings Trust told us about their Green Communities scheme which offers free training and consultancy to groups wanting to reduce their communities carbon footprint. If you are interested in joining or setting up such a group we would love to hear from you.

Wood usage survey

Do you use wood as a fuel?

We know that some of you use wood as a fuel for your space and/or water heating. For some it's as a supplementary heat source, for others a primary heat source. We would like to understand more about the extent of this demand and how it is currently supplied. If you are willing to take part in a short survey please to send an email response.

PV Best Buy

If you are interested in installing solar PV in the near future would you be interested in liaising with us? We are compiling information on costs from different vendors, so that we can offer advice on who are the best local suppliers. If you are interested please contact Brian (and do read our FAQ)

Also, if you have had a system installed recently would you mind letting Brian know (privately) how much you paid for it?

This group is still very young. Our general aims are to:

run a renewable energy generation project, raising money for other projects and creating more awareness of the value of renewable energy
cooperate with other groups such as Cambridge Carbon Footprint in helping people to reduce their household energy consumption
help to reduce the fossil fuel footprint of Cambridge

We are looking for ways to generate energy in the city itself if possible.

The projects we are researching at the moment include:

Wind	A small turbine, perhaps at a local school, since we can't put a wind farm in the city, sadly. We would be very interested to hear of any nearby wind farms we could potentially promote
Mini-finance	a small loans company (CDFI) for household energy efficiency and micro-generation projects
Rooftop PV	A company to buy and rent out Solar PV arrays, to help spread the cost. Also domestic PV is now an excellent investment - see our FAQ
Energy Descent Plan	for Cambridge
AD (abandoned)	Our plans for generating electricity from anaerobic digestion from food waste have floundered because there does not seem to be enough waste to make it commercially viable
Hydropower	We are looking out for sites to try out a micro-hydro plant (e.g. 1kW).

If you are interested in any of these projects or if you have another which you think fits our aims, please do let us know (or come to our next meeting and tell us in person).

Arthur's research notes on Company Structures are now online.

By the way, Nicola's thermographic pictures of houses in Cambridge are still here.