An article on the BBC website today on a new type of clothes drier which is 3 time quicker and uses 70% less energy caught our eye. Clothes driers on average consume more than 10% of a household’s electricity (394kWh /year (£60) from an average annual house electricity consumption of 3,638kWh/year (£545) Source: Powering the […]
Category Archives: Energy
B&NES area carbon emissions and electricity consumption statistics: carbon emissions drop 23% in 10 years
This is a brief update to our previous analysis of B&NES’s carbon emissions from 2014; carbon emissions and electricity consumption continue to drop in the B&NES Local Authority area. Carbon Emissions According to government statistics carbon emissions dropped from 1102 kt CO2 in 2005 to 850 kt CO2 in 2015 a drop of 23%: The […]
Energy Sparks website launched (Transition Bath Schools’ Energy Education Programme)
Transition Bath have been working with Bath: Hacked (a not-for-profit group promoting Open Data) on a website as part of an energy education program we are running with schools this year, and our new website have recently gone live: http://www.energysparks.uk/ . The website makes public electricity and gas smart meter data and integrates a gaming engine to […]
150 fold increase in renewable energy capacity in B&NES in last 6 years
According to an article written by Pete Capener, CEO of Bath & West Community Energy (BWCE), the renewable energy capacity in B&NES based on data from Ofgem has increased from 150kW to 22MW in B&NES between 2010 and 2016, a 150 fold increase. The current production is enough to provide electricity for 5.600 local homes, […]
B&NES schools invited to take part in an energy saving competition
B&NES schools are being invited to sign up to Energy Sparks, a new energy efficiency programme created by two Bath-based community groups. Energy Sparks is currently recruiting primary schools with pupils who would be enthusiastic to take part in monitoring their school’s energy usage using data and help the school be energy efficient. Bath: Hacked, […]
Video: BWCE Batheaston Waterwheel Turning
BWCE’s waterwheel at the Old Mill Hotel, Batheaston was installed and started turning just before Christmas. The wheel which is of a ‘Zuppinger’ water wheel type design shown above and will have the capacity to generate 13.5kW of electricity, or about 88,000 kWh per year, enough to provide the electricity for 25 homes. BWCE hope that the […]
Bath Council launches new Home Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme
B&NES Council have launched a new loan scheme with an APR of 4.2% on loans between £500 and £15,000 on repayment terms of 6 months to 15 years to help local home owners pay for energy efficiency schemes on their homes. The loans are intended to pay for energy saving measures such as boilers; loft, cavity […]
An update on Transition Bath’s Energy Sparks project to teach primary school children about energy
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 […]
Progress update: BWCE Waterwheel at Batheaston now generating electricity
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 puts in a planning application to include a water sourced heat pump
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 […]