Bristol Green Doors are looking for volunteers to assist them in two main areas: 1) Promoting the next open homes event by distributing event fliers, maps and posters to shops, bars, markets, notice boards, faith and community centres in neighbourhoods around Bristol to help us spread the word and get as many visitors as [...]
On the 10th January 2012, Chester Mayor Eleanor Johnson opened new low carbon classrooms built with CWAC funding and PV panels at the local primary school. Thanks to the help and support provided by the community the school will receive free green electricity when opened with the village Community Power Company, thereby generating revenue from the surplus. Following this, Ashton Hayes [...]
The event on March 17-18th 2012 will feature 40 homes across Bristol open between 12.00 and 6.00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. The event is free though donations are welcome. Bristol Green Doors have a great selection of homes participating showcasing a whole range of measures and technologies. See http://www.bristolgreendoors.org/events/march-2012 for more information and keep [...]
Last week, BBC Kenya correspondent Will Ross visited Kartech – a small business in Nairobi, which GVEP has been supporting. Kartech is involved in the production of institutional energy efficient cookstoves that are sold to schools, restaurants and hospitals. GVEP’s Loan Guarantees Fund Kartech’s clients, such as local schools, can receive credit finance to purchase the [...]
Carbon Co-op have successfully designed and installed 12kW solar panel array for Unicorn Grocery, a wholefood co-operative in Chorlton, South Manchester. Unicorn’s basic offer is affordable, wholesome food with a focus on organic, fair-trade and local sourcing. As a workers co-operative the shop is owned and managed by the people who work in it, and they have created a [...]
Community Energy Warwickshire successfully installed solar PV panels onto the Stratford upon Avon Hospital on the 8th December! As their first project installation, the 10kW array will qualify for the higher rate of feed-in tariff payments before the new lower rates are introduced. Warwick Hospital is soon to follow in early 2012. Shares totaling nearly £100,000 have [...]
LEAD International has been awarded a grant worth nearly £500,000 by the Big Lottery Fund to transform the lives of tribal communities living in Orissa, India’s poorest state. The ’Securing Tribal Livelihoods in Orissa’ project will target India’s most disadvantaged groups, working directly with communities and local organisations to improve food security and livelihood options. The project [...]
GVEP – Uganda Clean Cookstoves Producers
A five-year programme rewards entrepreneurship across East Africa by supporting micro-businesses to establish energy services and create employment opportunities in rural areas. Willy Bamwenyena’s story shows how one can turn a need into a business opportunity. The GVEP-led Developing Energy Enterprise Project (DEEP) has boosted his business – and that of hundreds of other entrepreneurs across [...]