Coming up in August, a joint venture between Climate Resilience Centre Worthing CREW & Heene Community Centre. A free drop-in event offering a variety of advice on solar, heat pumps, wind power & saving energy in the home. Something for everyone. Drop into the Heene Community Centre anytime between 12-3pm on Tuesday 18th August.
Energy
Worthing Community Energy
We are building a Community Energy Group for Worthing. This is part of a movement across Sussex, to bring communities together and generate locally-produced clean energy for the benefit of local businesses and residents. By developing local renewable sources of energy, we will be directly contributing to a cleaner and more sustainable community for our residents and businesses.
Our plan is to identify and develop local sites in and around Worthing that can accommodate solar panels to generate electricity. It is anticipated that this project will create real benefits for Worthing including local jobs and a community benefit fund to support local initiatives.
If you would like to become involved in the project or know of any large building that could benefit from solar please contact: [email protected]
For further information see: https://worthingcrew.co.uk/community-energy/
Energy Company/Cooperative for Worthing
A public meeting arranged by CREW is being held on 20th Oct at the Heene Community Centre starting at 6.45pm, to form an Energy Company/Cooperative for Worthing – there’s already over 500 of these in existence across the country.
The main speaker is Chris Rowland from OVESCO Lewes, the energy company that he helped to set up in 2005. The meeting will be chaired by Bob Smytherman.
The object is to inform everyone about local energy cooperatives/company’s and if there’s enough keen people, to set up a group for Worthing.
Everyone welcome. Tickets free on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/repower-worthing-tickets-1730913582119
Survey on Public Perceptions of Rampion Wind Farm
Laura Docherty is a geography student at the University of Manchester and is currently doing a dissertation looking at public perceptions of renewable energy, with a focus on the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm.
She is trying to understand how local people understand climate change adaptation strategies, such as wind energy projects.
Laura reached out to us at TTW to ask if our supporters might be willing to help with her research by completing this short survey: https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_57uJQ5dWfEKw1fM
All responses will be gratefully received!
Top Tips to Lower Your Heating Bill
Sarah Kemp, who led our Retrofit event earlier this year, has shared a couple of recommendations with our buddies at Transition Town Shoreham and we’d love to, in turn, share them with you:
The Heating Hub has a brilliant website that everyone should go to before this winter with advice on how to lower your energy bill if you use a condensing combi boiler:
https://www.theheatinghub.co.uk/mission
Go to the Ripple Energy website to find out more on how green energy ownership is the easy way to protect yourself from rising energy prices. Investing in one of their wind farms can lead to reduced energy bills and can work out to be more cost effective than putting PVs on your roof. Investment can start from as little as £25!
https://rippleenergy.com/
TTW would also like to recommend the following sites & schemes to help with energy costs:
The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) has put together an excellent blog with some great practical advice to help you prepare for the winter ahead amid the biggest price rise in energy bills in decades:
https://www.cse.org.uk/news/view/2716
The Warmer Homes scheme which has just secured £32 million for retrofitting energy saving measures in Sussex and Hampshire. Under the scheme if a household’s annual income is less than £30,000 and they live in a home with a low energy rating, they could be eligible for insulation, solar panels, air source heat pumps and more. The scheme is open to all eligible residents across West Sussex. Find out more: www.warmerhomes.org.uk
Eco Open Houses Video Tours Now Available
We are beginning to see some progress on trying to patch together our Eco Open Houses event that we had to cancel last year.
We’ve delivere d the EPIC tour as well as a tour of the Recycling Plant at Ford and one of our directors, Rolf Londal, has made videos of some of our wonderful eco homes. You can find them on our YouTube channel here.
As/when we are able to organise more events and videos, we will keep you posted!
Rampion Talk With Greening Steyning
Greening Steyning and the South East Climate Alliance (SECA) have organised an online event to give everyone the chance to hear the latest about plans to quadruple the output of the Rampion wind farm.
Join them via Zoom at 7.30pm on Tuesday 7th September for a talk by Chris Tomlinson, Development & Stakeholder Manager for Rampion 2. Chris will be outlining the latest plans for the new phase of the Rampion project and taking questions from the audience.
For more info and to book your ticket, please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rampion-2-hear-about-the-latest-plans-tickets-161661685453
A public consultation on the new Rampion 2 plans has also just started and you can learn all about it here: https://rampion2.com
The Future of Offshore Wind Power – 29th June
Hear all about the ambitious plans to build a new generation of offshore wind farms all around the UK at this months Green Drinks with speaker Will Apps, head of Energy Development at the Crown Estate.
Already, offshore wind powers the equivalent of 4.5 million homes annually and generates over 10% of UK electricity by 2020. But with prices falling steadily this contribution is set to expand substantially over the next 10 years, with a new government target of 30 GW capacity by 2030.
But how will this be done, and what are the challenges involved? Join in the discussion hosted by Greening Steyning on Tuesday 29th June, 7.30pm – 8.30pm.
To book your place go to:
Moixa Smart Battery Worthing Campaign 2021
Do check out this video: https://youtu.be/Bgvo4dqQOCE from BHESCO
It shows you how we really can help to tackle climate change, one household at a time…. it’s an exciting opportunity for anyone living in Worthing (or west of us toward Littlehampton), so do take a look. The grid won’t be able to cope with all the added pressure of electric vehicles and air source heat pumps and this can help provide a solution to the shortfall. The choices we make now will determine our future so if you can afford to do this and would like to help lead the way, please give it some serious consideration.
For more info see: https://bhesco.co.uk/
The Local Electricity Bill Is Making Headlines
Power for People have announced the great news that the Local Electricity Bill recently reached 250 supportive MPs. This means that over half of all backbench MPs are now on board and also, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have officially backed the Bill.
This particularly strong progress led to the campaign being heralded by The Telegraph in this article:
Power for People are very encouraged by this and feel we must make the most of it to build more MP support.
If possible will you please share this Telegraph article with your MP and ask them to ‘Please write to the Energy Minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, and ask that the government support the Bill’?
Support the campaign and Write To Your MP
If you need some inspiration before you write then the talented creator Bruna Martini made this brilliant animation for the campaign which captures the power of collective action and MP lobbying.
For more information see: powerforpeople.org.uk