St Saviours Infant School is Larkhall is raising £18,000 to become a Solar School. If you would like to help them by donating click here, or if you have any ideas for fund raising or would like to help, please contact the school at stsaviours_inf@bathnes.gov.uk Head teacher Ed Harker commented: “This year, to celebrate our school’s […]
Chelwood, a small village 10 miles to the west of Bath has raised nearly £2.5 million via their share offer to build 5MW solar farm. The building of the 5MW of ground-mounted solar panel on 22 acres of farmland next to Chelwood village will start very soon. The farm is predicted to generate 4,800 MWh of […]
We are providing the following response on behalf of Transition Bath to the government’s consultation on Feed-in Tariff payments for renewable energy. If you want to be involved and agree with our view that it is likely to kill off the renewables industry in the short-term, please either write to your MP or sign this […]
The small community of Chelwood, 10 miles to the west of Bath is raising capital to pay for a large 5 MW solar farm enough to provide electricity for 1,200 homes. To date it has raised £2.1 million in share capital enough combined with a loan for the project to go ahead but it is […]
The BWCE Community Fund for 2016 is now open for applications, the closing date is October 16th. This year £45,000 is available to mitigate against the effects of peak oil and resources, climate change and fuel poverty in Bath and surrounding areas. More information is available on the BWCE website.
The government has just announced a consultation which will reduce solar FIT tariffs by 87% from around 12p/kWh to 1.5p/kWh. This reduction has the potential to significantly reduce or completely kill off any future domestic and community solar PV installations in the UK, at a time when the government is providing significant support and subsidies […]
Transition Bath have responded to the government proposals from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to remove pre-accreditation for FITs for medium sized solar PV installations. At the moment if a community group e.g. Bath and West Community Energy (BWCE) identifies a site and gets planning permission for a solar farm, it is […]
In July we objected to the planning application for the Old Bath Press site for 244 new homes by the Lower Bristol Road, our detailed response is available here. From a sustainability perspective we were unhappy with the application: Provision of 12% affordable homes The assessment that Combined Heating and Power (CHP) is not feasible […]
In June Transition Bath responded to the planning application at Roseberry Place, our formal response is here. The proposal is for 200 flats to be built on the corner of the Lower Bristol Road and Windsor Bridge Road. Our view of this development was mixed there were some positive elements: Shared bike and pedestrian routes […]
We were inspired to start guerrilla gardening by a “guru”, Pam Warhurst of Incredible Edible Todmorden who came to talk to us back in 2011 about growing more food locally. Since then, we’ve created sites at Vegmead in Hedgemead Park (which has its own Facebook page and Twitter account: @vegmead), at Park Street, Gravel Walk and […]