USEFUL LINKS

Funding

Community Sustainable Energy Programme (Lottery funded support to community energy schemes) - Communitysustainable.org.uk

Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 1 (main government renewable energy grants programme for householders) Lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk

Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 2 (main government renewable energy grants programme for community, public and non-profit sector) Lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk

Bio-energy Capital Grants (DEFRA support for the woodfuel sector) - defra.gov.uk

E-On Source - eon-uk.com/about/source.aspx

EDF Green Fund - edfenergy.com/greenpages

Co-operative Group - Co-operative.coop/ourcampaigns/climatechange/

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Products and Suppliers

Greenbook Live (list of accredited sustainable energy products) - Greenbooklive.com

SWIFT Turbines (building mounted small wind turbines) - Renewabledevices.com

Proven Turbines (supplier of mast-mounted small wind turbines) - Provenenergy.co.uk

Segen (suppliers of small wind turbines and micro-hydro systems) - Segen.co.uk

ACE – Eco (suppliers of solar energy and wind systems) - Ace-eco.co.uk

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Associations

British Hydro Association - British-hydro.org

Renewable Energy Association - r-p-a.org.uk

Micropower Council - Micropower.co.uk

British Wind Energy Association - Bwea.com

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Information sheets

Dorset Renewable Energy Sheets - dorsetforyou.com/climatechange

Global Staus Report 2007- Global Status Report PDF

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Other Useful Sites

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- Global Status Report PDF

Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources like wind, rain, tides, the sun and geothermal heat. In 2006, about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, such as wood-burning. Hydroelectricity was the next largest renewable source, providing 3%, followed by solar hot water/heating, which contributed 1.3%.

Hydro power is a mature and well-understood technology that offers advantages over other renewable energy:

high efficiency plant and high power density
long system lifetime (up to 50 years)
predictable energy outputs
excellent load factor characteristics

Find out more in our small hydro services page

RDC is in the process of designing a 150 kW woodchip boiler system at a community centre in Dorset to provide centralised heating to several buildings.

Hastings Community Project

RDC has started work for a community group in Hastings who are improving the energy performance of a large Victorian building in order to sustain the spaces that are used by local artists and businesses. As well as insulating the main brick wall and installing double-glazing, the technologies being considered are a wood pellet central heating system, Solar PV and a small solar thermal array. ...more

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