If you would like to receive this newsletter via email a couple of weeks before we post it on the website please signup here: http://transitionbath.org/newsletter-signup/ Climate change hustings | Foraging walk & picnic | Chelsea Road View this email in your browser May Newsletter It’s been an exciting couple of months for Transition Bath, we’ve […]
Waitrose Community Matters: your tokens have helped raise £260 towards our running costs
Thank you to everyone who put tokens in our charity box at Waitrose in Bath in April. We will use the money to contribute towards Transition Bath’s running costs of about £1,000 per year. Most of our costs are for insurance which allows us to run events and to cover volunteers. We are always very appreciative of your donations however […]
Final stage and completion of the Chelsea Road project
The Chelsea Road project was brought to a close at the promised public meeting held on Friday 20th March. The presentation of the second stage survey findings, “Chelsea Rd: Promoting & Enhancing Walking Access”, was led by three members of the Transition Bath team. The report of the project’s first had been launched and […]
BWCE Energy Demand Management Project
BWCE and Transition Community Corsham are involved in a project to see how domestic and small scale micro-renewable electricity generation can be integrated with battery storage and automated control of appliances to lower carbon footprints by time-shifting demand. Background: the reason for time shifting demand Electricity demand varies throughout the day: with peak demand on […]
Results of B&NES Schools Energy Competition: a 20% average reduction in electricity consumption at 13 schools
Bath and North East Somerset Council in conjunction with Resource Futures have been working with 13 schools in the last year to encourage and support schools to run a behavioural change campaign to reduce energy usage. The culmination of this program was an energy saving competition between the schools. The competition ran over a 2 week […]
Free Energy Surveys and Fully Funded £6,000 Grants for Energy Efficiency Measures for Small Businesses
Are you a small business owner or can you think of one? Could they be made more efficient by installing free LED lighting, a new boiler or insulation? This is a rare opportunity to make your business or a business you know of more energy efficient for free. As part of a settlement with OFGEM […]
Summary of Parties’ Election Manifesto Commitments for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
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 […]
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 […]