Summary This first of a number of instalments of Transition Bath’s Carbon Descent Plan which we plan on presenting over the next year. The plan is to look at the trajectory of Bath’s energy consumption and renewable energy production to see what impact they have on Bath’s carbon emissions over the next 15 years. In […]
Category Archives: Energy
Energy Efficient Widcombe Raspberry Pi Home Monitoring Project
Energy Efficient Widcombe (EEW) are currently involved in a £100,000 Technology Strategy Board project to investigate the use of home sensors in monitoring the well-being of elderly ‘Assisted Living’ patients. EEW, along with their partners at the University of the West of England, ContinuumBridge Ltd and Designability are trialling a system coordinated by a Raspberry […]
Energy Saving Team Competition for Schools in Bath
Resource Futures’ Education Team is working with Bath and North East Somerset Council to motivate teachers and pupils to save energy through simple, everyday changes in behaviour. Primary schools have been invited to take part in the B.E.S.T. (B&NES Energy Saving Teams) competition, with exciting prizes to be won. Focusing on pupil-led behavioural change and […]
BWCE has applied for planning permission to install a water turbine at Batheaston Old Mill
Bath and West Community Energy (BWCE) has applied for
LED lighting try-before-you-buy scheme background for other community groups
Following a number of requests from other community groups about Transition Bath’s ‘try-before-you-buy’ LED lighting kit we thought it would be useful to write up some background to the project. Why a ‘try-before-you-buy’ project? 1. Why? LED bulbs are about 10 times more efficient than halogens Because we believe from a carbon and economic perspective […]
Transition Bath has been helping improve yields at the Mushroom Farm under Green Park Station
Transition Bath’s treasurer Hugh Prentice has been running a sustainable mushroom farm in the vaults under the old railway station at Green Park in Bath since March 2014. He has been collecting coffee grounds from cafes and restaurants on a daily basis and using the grounds to grow mushrooms which he then sells at the […]
BWCE installs 37.5 kWp of Solar PV on the council offices at Lewis House in Manvers Street
BWCE is just completed the installation of 37.5 kWp of solar panels on the council offices at Lewis House, on Manvers Street in the centre of Bath. The panels should produce about 28,000 kWh of electricity per year, which based on the buildings DEC certificate should offset about 8% of the buildings annual electricity consumption. […]
B&NES Council dismisses Call In on BWCE £500K loan
This morning (29/9/2014) the council’s Scrutiny Panel looked at a motion to delay or withdraw B&NES’s offer of a £500K loan for its 2.34MW Wilmington Solar Farm near Markbury. The £500K loan had been agreed by council cabinet members Paul Crossley and David Bellotti from its £1M Green Investment Fund. A large number of written […]
Bath Western Riverside Energy Centre and District Heating System
Bath Western Riverside Energy Centre provides the heating and hot water via a district heating system to approximately 800 homes on the newly built Crest Nicolson development at Bath Western Riverside. For those of you who didn’t get the opportunity of visiting the centre during Bath Green Homes we felt it would be useful for […]
Is your tradesperson suitably qualified?
Transition Bath has a long held ambition that tradespersons in Bath hold additional accreditations in how energy efficiency measures can be applied to our historic buildings. So for example a tradesperson installing internal wall insulation is able to provide good advice on whether to use a natural vapour permeable solution or a modern solution with […]