TRANSITION TOWN LETCHWORTH
Affiliated with Letchworth Arts and Leisure Group (LALG)
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About Us
TTL is a group that is part of the worldwide Transition Network and seeks to tackle the twin
challenges of climate change and peak oil locally.
Climate Change
The world - its temperature, its sea-level, its deserts, its weather - is changing. Can we slow the process down or even reverse it by changing our behaviour?
Peak Oil
Oil will never be as readily available again. We haven't run out but it is going to become harder and harder to source. We are completely dependent on this increasingly endangered commodity...... Can we become resilient to an impending oil drought?
Transition
The 'Transition' model asks communities to find a solution locally. Can we protect ourself against an oil shortage by creating local networks, setting up car pools, adapting our housing, affecting local authority decisions etc etc? We hope so......
Breaking News....
Book by Rob Hopkins: 'The Transition Companion'
Now you can flip through a sample of the pages and post comments here...
or even put the software 'widget' for showing that into a web page!
TTL Domestic Solar Scheme
You may have heard about the Department of Energy & Climate Change's sudden decision to slash the feed in tariff (FITs) incentive scheme for solar PV for all systems fitted after December 12th 2011. Their proposal is to reduce it from 43.3p to 21p per unit of power generated.
This has left the industry reeling and if it goes ahead, it is likely to effect the viability of both our domestic and community solar scheme proposals. Read more...
Energy Group
….is interested in generating energy from renewable resources and in reducing our need for energy. As well as sharing ideas and supporting each other's individual initiatives we are also looking at wider community projects.
New members are welcome to join us. We meet monthly at the home of one of our members. If you'd like to come along, please get in touch (email ttletchworth@googlemail.com with subject “Energy Group”) and we'll let you know the date and venue of our next meeting.
LETCHWORTH'S FIRST COMMUNITY FUNDED SOLAR FARM
We are working to put in place Letchworth's first community funded solar farm. Other towns, including Lewes and West Oxford have led the way and we want to follow their lead. Read more...
BULK BUY OF SOLAR PV OR SOLAR THERMAL
We are working towards putting a TTL"Domestic Solar Scheme" in place. We're selecting a partner company to work with us to bring you a brilliant discounted on solar panels - photovoltaic and/or hot water - for your home. If you've been thinking about installing solar thermal or PV on your property and are interested in this offer, email ttletchworth@googlemail.com with "Bulk Solar" in the title. Let's work together to get a great deal!
ENERGY SAVING
One way that Transition Town energy groups have helped their members to reduce their energy usage is to provide a forum for regularly sharing meter readings and ideas for reducing usage over time. Transition Town Letchworth has set up its own subgroup in the national Imeasure programme (www.imeasure.org). Imeasure is run by the University of Oxford and households regularly enter their meter readings which they can compare with national averages or selected subgroup averages. Once we have enough participants our intention is to use competition and co-operation to see if we can reduce our demand for energy. We plan to share the ideas that bring us the greatest savings via this website.
LOCAL CASE STUDIES
Over time we hope to build a series of case studies and contacts of local people who have used technology to either generate energy or reduce their energy usage.
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