Since we gained funding from the Open Data Institute in August to develop a website, we have been busy beavering away developing the website which will form the basis of a ‘School Energy Competition’ which we plan on using to teach primary school children about energy. We now have a working test website, which has […]
The proposal being developed by Adam Reynolds, who is Chair of CycleBath, aims to make the centre of Bath a more pleasant and less polluted place, by restricting traffic flow into the centre of Bath. The initial suggestion includes 17 number plate recognition cameras to restrict vehicles entering a central area of the city to […]
A new group called “The Bath Tram Re-Introduction Group” has been formed following a meeting at BRSLI to promote the reintroduction of trams in Bath. The group hope that by reintroducing trams they will help solve Bath’s congestion and pollution problems. The proposal suggests installing overhead electrical rails, and rails in the road to form […]
The community owned waterwheel at the Old Mill Hotel has finally started turning. The wheel was the first project discussed by the newly formed Bath & West Community Energy 6 years ago, but has now, finally, come to fruition. In the mean time BWCE has raised just under £13million for 16MW of projects for solar […]
Cleveland Pools has just submitted its planning application for the the restoration of the UK’s only surviving Georgian lido. The application will include the world’s first naturally treated, heated, outdoor swimming pool. Transition Bath is particularly supportive of the use of a water-sourced heat pump which will extract latent heat from the River Avon to heat […]
As previously reported by Transition Bath under Bath Abbey’s £19million Footprint project the Abbey will become more sustainable by using hot water from the Roman Springs to heat the Abbey. On Monday 21st November Charles Curnock presented an update on the project. The mains points of interest from a sustainability perspective from his presentation were: […]
Bath: Hacked have been working for the last year, to use data from Strava a smart phone GPS tracking app to work out where people are cycling in Bath. This data provides an insight into the cycle routes taken within Bath by Strava users which can’t be obtained in any other way, and has the […]
The brand-new plant in Keynsham owned by Resourceful Earth Ltd will be going live in the Spring. It will use food and feedstock waste collected from households and businesses in Keynsham and anaerobic digestion to produce methane biogas which will then be used to produce electricity. The remaining solids will then be pasteurised and used […]
Food Drop is a new project started by Bath University volunteers to distribute waste food to local charities. Initially they have agreed to deliver spare food from Pret a Manger once a week to 3 local charities funded by £300 grant from the ‘O2 Think Big’ fund. “The charities support young people with drug and […]
First Bus and Wessex in combination with local biogas bus pioneer Geneco have lost out in a bid to get government funding for 130 biogas buses powered by human waste from Wessex Water’s Avonmouth sewage treatment plant. They were unsuccessful in their bid for funding to the government’s £30million low emission bus scheme for 2016 […]