Our plans for the renewable heat and energy open weekend on the 16th and 17th May are beginning to firm up. We have ten homes participating in and around Crediton.

On show at various times over the weekend will be two wood burning boilers, a wood pellet stove, six solar hot water systems, three photovoltaic electricity generating systems, three wind turbines, one ground source and one air source heat pump, two solid wall insulated houses, a small holding, an organic garden, a composting loo and a reed bed sewerage system. We are in the process of drafting a leaflet which will describe what will be on show. The leaflet will be available online on our website and in one or two places in Crediton. Final details will be in the next newletter.

Investing in the sorts of technology mentioned above can be expensive even with the government grants currently available. A cheaper and additional option to reduce your electrical footprint could be to convert to a 100% green supplier such as our recommended supplier Ecotricity. WhichGreen  shows how much electricity companies are spending on renewable technologies.

Ecotricity are sponsoring the Discovery Channel's current series Ways to Save the Planet at 7pm on Sundays.