To save you looking it up for yourself we have tried to summarise the major parties’ manifesto commitments for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change: Conservatives Manifesto: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manifesto2015/ConservativeManifesto2015.pdf Energy: Investment in energy research in Blackpool (fracking), Cumbria (nuclear?), Thornton (fracking). Midland Energy Research Accelerator: research in shale gas, carbon capture and storage, energy storage. Energy […]
Category Archives: Energy
Alterations to B&NES Energy at Home Green Deal Top Up Grant April 2015
For those not already aware of the scheme, B&NES council have been offering generous top up grants for a wide range of retrofit work on homes to make them more energy efficient and comfortable to live in. The current scheme is coming to an end, so if you are in the process of applying you […]
Wilmington Solar PV Farm goes live
The 2.3MW Wilmington Farm Solar PV Farm went live on the 25th March and is now contributing electricity to the national grid. On Wednesday April 8th it was generating 1.9MW enough to power 650 homes enough to power the nearby villages of Marksbury, Compton Dando, Woollard, Hunstrete, Chewton Keynsham, Saltford and Stanton Prior.
Transition Bath Parliamentary Hustings Report & Video: 23 March 2015
The Transition Bath Parliamentary Hustings on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability took place on Monday 23rd March 2015. It proved to be a great success with more than 90 people attending the 2 hour Hustings at BRLSI on Queens Square. During the course of the evening we got through 23 questions, some short and some […]
Has your Prospective Parliamentary Candidate pledged to oppose Fracking?
Greenpeace are running a campaign asking all Prospective Parliamentary Candidates to oppose Fracking. To date in Bath Steve Bradley (Lib Dem), Loraine Morgan Brinkhurst (Independent) and Dominic Tristram (Greens) have all signed. However Julian Deverell (UKIP), Ben Howlett (Conservative) and Ollie Middleton (Labour) haven’t. This compares well with what the candidates said at our hustings, with the […]
Crowd-sourcing of questions for the Transition Bath Hustings for the 2015 parliamentary elections
On March 23rd 2015 we will be holding our Parliamentary Hustings for the prospective parliamentary candidates for Bath at BRSLI in Queens Square. In preparation we would like to crowd-source some questions for the event and would like your help? The aim of the event is to find out where each of the candidates stands on making […]
Help the Energy Group decide which projects to run for the next year
On April 14th we will be holding our annual project planning meeting to decide which projects we are going to be running in the coming year. This will involve both new projects and continuing work with existing projects. Potential new and old projects include: Thermal Imaging: how should we go forward (there will be a […]
New Transition Bath Energy Group Blower Door Project
The Energy Group has decided to start a new project, which is to construct or purchase a blower door to test air permeability in buildings. Blower doors are used in the building industry to see how leaky new homes are and building regulations require that they are better than 10 m3/m2/hour. Blower doors use very […]
Transition Bath wins £1,500 grant from BWCE to roll out more LED Try-before-you-buy kits
We have just been notified that we have won a £1,500 grant from the BWCE Community Fund to enhance our LED Try-before-you-buy kit which has been receiving rave reviews. We aim to use the money to: produce 4 more down-lighter kits, 3 of which will be available from Bath Central Library, and one will be […]
Why Transition Bath is concerned with DCLG’s attempts to abolish DECs for schools?
Summary At short notice, before the upcoming General Election the government has announced a consultation due to end on March 11th whose aim is to drastically reduce the number of schools which are required to provide annual Display Energy Certificates. All public buildings that are visited by the public have been required to display their […]