Would you like to see a greener Bankeyfields - A Proposed Community Energy Project
For some months now, members of the resident’s association committee have been discussing the merits of creating a community energy project within the Bankyfields estate. Whilst no specific options have been agreed on, I’m sure we can all agree that lowering CO2 emissions is an environmental necessity.
Possible solutions include individual, home based, systems such as Micro Wind Turbines, Solar Heated Water and Solar Electricity, Combined Heat and Power equipment, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Heat Pumps, Wood fuelled heating and Hydroelectricity.
Or the local community might like to look into larger scale systems such as District Heating Schemes, alongside side larger scale renewable sources such as Solar Panel fields, medium sized wind turbines and multiple ground source pumps.
After informal talks with the Climate Change Officer at Stoke on Trent Council for a few months, the RA is happy to tell you all that the first official meeting will take place between the Council and a representative of the RA next week, with the Council looking to complete a feasibility study offering suggestions how the local community might like to move forward.
We would also like to encourage your suggestions as to what measures you’d like to make as individuals and as a community as a whole. All of your suggestions will be pooled at the time of the meeting and presented to the Climate Change Officer to better equip him to produce the Bankyfields Community Energy Feasibility Study.
We look forward to your thoughts,
Bankyfields Resident Association
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You could have a generator
You could have a generator that runs on dog crap from the open space, there's loads of the stuff
Might be good to get some
Might be good to get some advice and maybe sponsorship from your neighbours at Blue Planet (which I note is still for sale/to let), they have a good page on all the different energy-harvesting features of the warehouse. See http://www.gparkblueplanet.com/ > Eco features
That's a really good idea.
That's a really good idea.
One of the simplest methods the Blue Planet uses to generate energy is using the Kinetic Energy Plate
wobble plate (not the technical term)which is located at the entrances and exits of the site.Basically every time a car travels over the plates, energy is created. How many cars travel up and down Reginald Mitchell Way each day? Imagine is this was implemented through out the city at junctions/roundabouts (where traffic is slower).
But as always would you ever see the costs of the technology back in terms of energy? Or shouldn't this matter?
Related:
http://cleantech.com/news/4382/aest-harnessing-kinetic-energy-road
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/jun/17/renewable-en...
Wow - I have never heard of
Wow - I have never heard of these wobble plates. How about installing them all the way along the A500? Then we can have a power war with Newcastle!!
There's a load of discussion on solar and feed-in-tarrifs for homeowners here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2244389
Locally Phoenix Eco Energy
Locally Phoenix Eco Energy part of the Phoenix Gas Services group have now packaged up their eco offering and created a new subsidy company to deal with it.
They are focusing on SOlar PV, Solar, Air Source and Ground Source renewable technology.
The home options seem good,
The home options seem good, but aren't they always really expensive for home owners? Although I've not heard of some of these options.
Could you rate how effective these are in terms of energy created and how many months through the year they are effective?
Micro Wind Turbines, Solar Heated Water and Solar Electricity, Combined Heat and Power equipment, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Heat Pumps, Wood fuelled heating and Hydroelectricity.
Now this sounds really interesting. But I don't know what these things are, can you describe them further?
Or the local community might like to look into larger scale systems such as District Heating Schemes, alongside side larger scale renewable sources such as Solar Panel fields, medium sized wind turbines and multiple ground source pumps.
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