Renewable Energy Club
Steps Toward a Low Carbon Society
Introduction
The purpose of the Renewable Energy Club is to give mutual support and encourage others to become more knowledgeable, gain confidence and invest in their own on site generation. Members should also be actively encouraged to reduce their use of fossil fuels before or within a reasonable period of time afterwards. We are initially directing our efforts at Warwick District residents but all welcome interest from further a field.
We set ourselves these objectives:
- Understanding the renewable technologies, costs, benefits and pitfalls
- Increasing awareness and acceptance in the community
- Seeing many more installations across the District and County
Over 50 people expressed an interest in being involved in the club and around 30 people attended a very successful launch meeting on 1 December 2007 at Hill Close Gardens in Warwick. A second meeting was held in Leamington Spa on 2nd February. At this meeting we decided to initially concentrate on solar thermal, wood burning stoves, photovoltaic cells and wind power.
We have membership with a wide range of interests from householders, to farmers and even one member who has a solar powered canal barge.
Contact Us
If you wish to join the Renewable Energy Club or attend one of its meetings please call the Action21 office on 01926 456067 or email renew@action21.co.uk . We maintain a mailing list to keep you informed of future events .
Meeting Schedule
Meetings are provisionally planned for the first Saturday of the month starting 10.00 for 10.15am and finishing at 12.00pm but this is to be confirmed. We suggest you refer to the Action 21 Diary which is the definitive place for information about meetings. The location will change between Warwick and Leamington.
The provisional dates are as below - but do first check with the Action 21 Diary for confirmation and details. Thanks!
1 March 2008
5 April 2008
3 May 2008
7 June 2008
5 July 2008
2 August 2008
6 September 2008
4 October 2008
1 November 2008
6 December 2008
Notes from previous meeting
Our areas of interest and plans
Although we wish to support all forms of renewable energy the group decided to focus initially on these technologies:
- solar thermal
- wood burning stoves
- photovoltaic cells
- wind power
Specific ideas are to:
- Create a resource library
- Run a project to install 30 new solar thermal heaters in the district
Case Studies
We will be compiling a set of case studies on domestic renewable installations and will be placing a link to those studies on the website. Please click on the link below to be directed to the page to read Case Studies.