Energy Group meeting – Tue 4 March

Notes by Stephen Watson

Minutes of TB&H Energy TIG on the 4th of March 2008 at BPEC

[Action points are contained with brackets]

Present
Martin Grimshaw, Doly Garcia, Stephen Watson and Jim Adams

Apologies
Matthew Bird, John Bristow

Possibility of funding
Considered a bank account & constitution.
The feeling from Stephen, Doly & Martin was that this wasn’t
appropriate now. May be later …

Venue
BPEC costing £20 tonight Need a new venue for free. Sanctuary was
suggested for the next meeting.

Next meeting
Clashes with other TIGs at present
[Doly to put date on the web site and email members with info about
next meeting. Preferred Tues 1st, 8th as fallback.]

Progress report
Check out LED traffic lights and what other Transition Initiatives are
doing in the energy arena
[Jim to do by first of April]

Speaker on Energy booked at advertised
[John Bristow has handled this]

Correspondence from Good Energy
[Doly to contact Chris to put discount offer on web site if appropriate]

[Martin to send Independent Energy review to Jim for consideration]

Project idea to see which businesses (North Laine) may be using
renewable energy in their business
[Doly to send PO business energy document she wrote to Jim.]
[Jim to draw up a document to expand on goals of energy consumption &
efficiency by local businesses and other schemes as a contribution for
the next meeting.]

We invite other members of the group to contribute their ideas to the
development of the group. Emails should be sent to energy*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk

Each member of the group to send a brief overview of TB&H and the
Energy group to one or more friends to encourage more people to get
involved.