Thanks to the swift response and hard work of some of its dedicated volunteers, the PETRA team was able to prepare a grant proposal for the Local Energy and Assessment Fund (LEAF) funding in time to meet the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s tight submission deadline on the 22nd December 2011. Their valiant efforts [...]
Giles Bristow talks about the new Community Energy Coalition’s vision for the UK, where currently, 99% of electricity is generated by just six companies. This video has been produced by the Community Energy Coalition, which includes some of Britain’s best known and trusted national organisations including The Co-operative Group, The National Trust, The National Federation [...]
ITV featuring the story of Repowering South London first successful project delivery: Brixton Solar 1. This is just the beginning… http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2012-04-01/new-solar-project-in-brixton/
What a fantastic turnout for Brixton Energy’s Launch Event last night at Electric Social in the heart of Brixton. Carbon Leapfrog was delighted to be there to support the Brixton team and help kickstart community energy in London! Brixton Energy came through Carbon Leapfrog’s Project Steering Group in November last year and has already received [...]
The Student Switch Off continues to have great success this academic year. The latest stats are as follows: – 18,765 students have pledged to save energy (19% of those in halls) – Average reduction in electricity usage of 7% – 609 tonnes of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere (enough energy to make 39million cups [...]
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 [...]
Last week saw the first Carbon Accounting workshop hosted by Simmons & Simmons and delivered by Ecometrica. Dr Richard Tipper Managing Director and Charlotte Wylie Senior Analyst at Ecometrica gave a great introduction to greenhouse gas accounting and explained the drivers for corporate carbon accounting. Charlotte also went through a demonstration of Ecometrica’s ‘Our Impacts’ software [...]
The first batch of local energy projects to win funding from DECC’s new £10m Local Energy Assessment Fund was announced today. Six successful Carbon Leapfrog projects were amongst the winning bids. A big congratulations to all the communities successful in their application and particularly the Carbon Leapfrog projects. The winners included Ashton Hayes, Carbon Leapfrog’s [...]
Carbon Leapfrog was delighted to begin working with HSBC back in July 2011. Bringing such a well established global banking and financial services organisation on board as a professional partner was a milestone for Leapfrog, not least because of the range of skills and experience within HSBC that could be channeled through to our projects. [...]
Monthly Committee Meeting Yields Encouraging News
Things were looking up at the PETRA Monthly Committee Meeting held on 28th February 2012. A long awaited response had been received from Havering Council in relation to a handful of PETRA energy efficiency proposals that form part of the Money Saving Estate project. Committee Chair, Mike Davis, enthusiastically reported that the council had indicated [...]