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 […]
Welcome to this month’s Transition happenings in Bath… View this email in your browser September Newsletter This is probably Transition Bath’s busiest month of the year with the launch of Bath Green Homes. We have 16 homes open during the open homes weekend of 27th/28th September and 20 events running throughout the autumn. This […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Bath and West Community Energy in fighting off strong national competition to win the ”UK Community Energy Organisation of the Year” Award . Peter Capener, was named ‘Leader of the Year’ for his work as Chair of BWCE and supporting development of the national government’s Community Energy Strategy. Pete Capener said ‘After many years in […]
Congratulations to B&NES Council in helping all 78 state schools in the area reduce their gas consumption by a total of 18% last winter. Although much of this reduction came from the mild winter, a significant proportion was as a result of project work carried out over the course of the last year with involvement […]
Home insulation grants are a very changing landscape. In June the government announced its generous £6000 grant scheme for solid wall insulation which unfortunately has now been withdrawn because it was too popular (does that remind you of the solar PV tariffs?)! However, B&NES has come to the rescue and is offering grants of up […]
With the approach of the apple harvesting season, Transition Bath’s energy group were wondering which was the most efficient way of preserving apple juice? For domestic juicers there seems to be two alternative approaches: pasteurisation and freezing. Both require energy: pasteurisation incurs energy heating the juice up to 80C (fast pasteurisation method) freezing incurs energy reducing […]
Linden and Bloor Homes, the developers of part of the ex-MOD site at Ensleigh North, have submitted a revised application for planning permission. We have objected for a second time to the application because it is of a low standard and significantly below that of the 2 other ex-MOD sites in B&NES – Warminster Road […]
In July’s newsletter we asked you what you thought of 7 potential solutions to solving the difficult problem of how you encourage people to cycle or walk up and down the hills in Bath in a North-South direction. Thank you to all those who took time to complete the survey. The survey was partly as […]
Congratulations to the Cleveland Pools Trust on gaining initial development funding for the £4.1 million restoration of the pools. Given the initial proposal is to use gas for heating we thought we would look at some more environmentally friendly alternatives for the main heating system for the pools: Air Source Heat Pumps Water Source Heat […]