A government consultation on Future Homes Standards has the potential to reduce insulation on new homes by 50 %. It also proposes stopping local authorities like B&NES Council from imposing higher standards. B&NES currently requires new homes to be built with 19% lower CO2 emissions than national minimum standards. Please help us and the planet […]
BWCE has launched its Community Solar 2020 programme to install community owned solar pv in the Bath & West area. The programme will offer free solar panel installations for businesses, schools and community buildings. It is looking for help from the community to identify suitable roofs. Further information is available here: https://www.bwce.coop/bwce-launches-community-solar-2020/
Over the last 6 months Transition Bath’s Energy Sparks schools’ energy education and efficiency programme has been rolling out to other areas of the country, including Somerset, Oxfordshire, Sheffield and now the Highlands of Scotland. Energy Spark’s latest recruit is Pennyland Primary School , which is on the far north coast of Scotland, overlooking the […]
In March our Energy Sparks programme received a £58K grant under the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Non-domestic Smart Energy Management Innovation Competition. We have used this funding to further develop our website and infrastructure to help schools save energy. The funding has allowed us to: Enhance our education programme for KS3 pupils (originally […]
Local architects Hewitt Studios are developing a sustainable EV charging with integrated cafe/education space called ‘K:Port’, which is designed to provide offer EV charging under an aesthetically pleasing canopy which incorporates solar PV and rain water harvesting. It is the first project for Sustainable Technology Business Acceleration Hub run by Bath University. A video, explains the concept: […]
The release of the Government’s “Household Energy Efficiency Statistics” today highlights a problem with the current programme of installing energy efficiency measures in homes. Cavity wall and loft insulation funded by energy companies under the ECO scheme are down 85% since their peak in 2014. The problem was largely caused by the failure of the […]
Since B&NES Placemaking Plan was adopted in July policy SCR1 which requires large developments (10 or more homes) to deliver properties which out-perform minimum Building Regulation carbon emissions by 10% delivered by renewable technologies, we have been objecting to planning applications which don’t meet this policy. Almost all of the planning applications made by developers […]
Transition Bath and Bath: Hacked‘s innovative web based Schools Energy Education Programme Energy Sparks has been launched with a number of local schools taking part. The programme based around an innovative web platform we have developed not only displays 1/2 hourly electricity and gas meter data which allows pupils to monitor their progress in reducing […]
As part of Bath and North East Somerset’s plans for the future, part of the ‘Bath Local Plan 2016-2036′, in a draft consultation document B&NES council are proposing the development of a 1500 zero carbon homes in North Keynsham. This is an interesting precedence in that Transition Bath have been pushing for zero carbon housing for […]
Domestic buildings energy strategy The government announced its future clean energy strategy today. It is of interest to Transition Bath as we have long campaigned to make our homes more efficient and to reduce their carbon emissions. Takeaways from the 165 document include: “Support around £3.6 billion of investment to upgrade around a million homes […]