by Keith Wheaton-Green | Jul 13, 2015 | Community Energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Wind Power
Wind Turbines in Dorset? Planning Committee says NO I recently attended a wind turbine planning determination in a crowded village hall when the planning committee (well 6 of the 11 members attended) decided the fate of an application for 4 large wind turbines. We all...
by Keith Wheaton-Green | Apr 1, 2015 | Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living, Wind Power
Who should you vote for if Climate Change and Renewable Energy are important to you? I put party attitudes in two categories. Twentieth century concepts of centralised energy generation, fossil fuel and nuclear technologies and a reluctance to push forward with...
by Keith Wheaton-Green | Mar 11, 2015 | Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Living
Is Consumerism Dead? In a moment of utter boredom with the dismal TV schedule the other night I found myself way down the TV station list watching “Challenge”, wallowing in nostalgia with 1980s game shows. There was “Celebrity Squares”, “The Price is Right” and...
by Keith Wheaton-Green | Jan 19, 2015 | Dorset Energized News, Green Electricity & Gas, Solar Energy, Uncategorized, Water Power, Wind Power
100% renewable and self sufficient North Dorset in Electricity – here`s how The most recent statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change show that North Dorset consumes 290.8 GWh/yr The last census shows 30,397 households, only 11% of those being...
by Keith Wheaton-Green | Sep 24, 2014 | Electric Transport, Sustainable Energy Stories
Electric Car Charging I extracted the text below from a recent speech by Baroness Kramer. “The UK already has the best network of rapid chargepoints in Europe. And London has more chargepoints than petrol stations. By the end of this year, there will be rapid...
