Our view of the future of personal transport is very optimistic and we feel it will largely happen without government intervention and as the result of market forces. I believe the advent of autonomous driverless ride sharing vehicles will have a profound impact on our lives within 20 years – and will be as disruptive […]
The theme for this year’s Bath Hacked is environmental sustainability. Bath: Hacked is a local voluntary Community Interest Company whose aim is too use or create open data to spark innovative ideas and better local decision making. Past projects include a website to display food outlets’ hygiene standards, a iphone app to display data on Bath, […]
Grants of up to £6,000 are available to make energy saving improvements to your home through Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Energy at Home scheme. This grant is available to all home owners, private landlords and privately renting tenants. You do not need to be on a low income or an elderly person to […]
BWCE has been successful in raising £5.1 million to buy a solar PV farm at Portworthy North of Plymouth. £900K was raised following a more than successful share issue in the Autumn combined with a further £1.7 million raised by a bond issue in January and £2.4 million of debt finance has allowed BWCE to […]
With three new primary schools to be built in Bath in the next few years at Ensleigh, Mulberry Park and Cross Street, Keynsham, and with their knowledge from participation in the Verco Schools Energy Survey of 72 B&NES schools in 2013 where new schools performed badly Transition Bath’s Energy Group would like to make some […]
Under the government’s Go Ultra Low Cities government funding scheme Bath & North East Somerset Counci is sharing a £7.5million grant with 3 other local councils (Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset) to encourage uptake of Ultra Low Emission Vehicle use. B&NES will be using their share of the grant to increase the number of electric charging points […]
Transition Bath has been successful in a grant application to the BWCE Community Fund which will allow us to purchase a blower door and start a blower door project to work in parallel to our existing thermal imaging program. Blower doors are basically big fans which can be inserted into the door of a house […]
This will be the last EIS eligible fund raising round before EIS (30% tax refund for those eligible) is removed by the government at the end of November. The deadline for the investment is 24 November, but hurry as 40% of the money was raised in the first 12 hours the fund was open! The […]
A recent report by the Association for the Conservation of Energy (AECB) calculates that the UK has the highest level of fuel poverty in Europe and the fabric of its buildings is among the worst of all European countries. Recent changes to government policy with roll-backs of energy efficiency measures in homes including: The cancellation […]
With funding from the BWCE Community Fund we have finally installed the new Try-before-you-buy LED kits for you to borrow in Bath Central Library. We have had a kit in the library since December 2014, as far as we know the first such scheme in the country. The scheme has been very successful, and we have […]