The next Energy group meeting is at 7.45pm on Tue 8 July at the Sanctuary Cafe, Brunswick St East, Hove (off Western Road, near Juggler pub: map). For more information contact Jim Adams at energy*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk. Agenda below.
1. Introductions.
2. Appointments to be decided of
e.g. (i) Note taker for next meeting (rotates amongst some members of the group).
(ii) Facilitator (i.e. chair – rotates).
(iii) Other posts.
3. Progress reports.
EDRAP (Energy Descent & Resilience Action Plan),
Government Renewables consultation doc. response,
Campaign on Sussex offshore wind turbines before 2014,
Green Wave Festival Stall,
Eco Games for the above (CRISIS and Energy Quest),
The hub and forum,
Contacts outside Brighton & Hove,
Other meetings, e.g. liaison with Local Government Group, Transport, Business & Economics, and Food.
Funding – including Council Sustainability funding,
Preferred energy suppliers,
LED traffic lights & street lights,
Shoreham Harbour wind turbines,
CHP (Combined Heat and Power) – CERES Power,
B&H City Council contacts - tenants, - & Advisory Service,
Report on liaison with the Universities of Sussex and Brighton,
Smart Metering information and ‘Metering Library Loans’,
4. Open discussion.
5. Venue and date and time of next meeting.
For an Action List from previous meetings download here (Rich Text Format file).
Energy Group meeting - Tue 8 July
Energy Group meeting - Tue 17th June
The next Energy Group meeting will be at 7:50 pm for 8:00 pm, Tuesday 17th June 2008, in the Sanctuary Café. This is off (south of) Western Road, near the Juggler pub, along Brunswick Street East.
Bus stop: between Norfolk Square and Brunswick Square.
You will recognize the right table because there will be a windmill model on it.
Agenda
1. Introductions.
2. Appointments to be decided of
e.g. (i) Note taker for next meeting (rotates amongst some members of the group).
(ii) Facilitator (i.e. chair – rotates).
(iii) Other posts.
3. Progress reports.
The hub,
Contacts outside Brighton & Hove,
Other meetings, e.g. liaison with Local Government Group, Transport, Business & Economics, and Food.
Green Wave Festival Stall,
Eco Game for the above (currently called CRISIS),
Carnival,
Funding – including Council Sustainability funding,
Preferred Energy Suppliers,
LED Traffic Lights & Street Lights,
Shoreham Harbour Wind Turbines,
CHP (Combined Heat and Power) – CERES Power,
B&H City Council contacts - tenants, - & Advisory Service,
EDRAP (Energy Descent & Resilience Action Plan),
Report on liaison with the Universities of Sussex and Brighton,
Smart Metering information and ‘Metering Library Loans’,
4. Open discussion.
5. Venue and date and time of next meeting.
Energy Group meeting - Tuesday 6th May
Energy Group meeting: 7:50 pm for 8:00 pm, Tuesday 6th May 2008
Sanctuary Café
This is off Western Road, near the Jugglers
Bus stop: between Norfolk Square and Brunswick Square.
You will recognize the right table because there will be a windmill model on it.
Agenda Transition Energy Group
1. Introductions.
2. Appointments to be decided of
e.g. (i) Note taker for next meeting (rotates amongst some members of the group).
(ii) Facilitator (i.e. chair – rotates).
(iii) Other posts.
3. Progress reports.
LED Traffic Lights & Street Lights,
Shoreham Harbour Wind Turbines,
B&H City Council contacts,
EDRAP (Energy Descent & Resilience Action Plan),
University of Sussex “Design Solutions for Climate Change” – 8th May,
Energy Services Company,
Smart Metering,
Funding & Bank Account,
Small scale Solar Panels.
4. Open discussion.
5. Venue and date and time of next meeting.
Energy Group meeting - Tuesday 1st April
The next Energy Group meeting will be on Tuesday 1st April, 7:30, at the Sanctuary Cafe.
You will be able to identify the correct table because there will be a windmill model on it.
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.
Minutes from the 10th Feb Energy Group meeting
Attendees were Jim Adams, Michael Petek, Doly Garcia, John Bristow, Andrew Fishman, Martin Grimshaw, Ionela Macovei, Stephen Watson and Matthew Bird.
In this meeting we decided on several actions.
Appointed:
Coordinator – Jim Adams
Website moderator - Doly Garcia
Facilitator (chair) for 10th Feb meeting - John Bristow
Notetaker of 10th Feb meeting – Jim Adams
Notetaker for 4th Mar meeting – Stephen Watson
Investigate funds for Smart Metering - Matthew Bird. (A project group may be formed around this.)
Contact Mari Martesconan on consumer behaviour and invite to next meeting - John Bristow
Investigate what has happened on LED Traffic Lights and Wind Turbines with B&H City Council - Jim Adams
Find out what other Transition Energy Groups are doing - Jim Adams
Arrange next meeting - Jim Adams
Advertise meeting (by e-mail) - Matthew Bird
Advertise meeting (website) - Doly Garcia
Write up notes of meeting - Jim Adams
First meeting of the Transition Energy Group – Sun 10 February
The Transition Energy Group will have its first meeting on Sunday 10th of February, 8pm, in the Sanctuary cafe. We will aim to be upstairs, but it will depend on availability of tables.
To identify the table, there will be a windmill model on it. Members of the Brighton Peak Oil Group may find it vaguely familiar.
Notes from 'Making it happen' workshop – Thu 24 January
A FREE, one-day session to learn about developing community-based energy initiatives will be taking place in the Hove Town Hall, Hove on 24th of January 2008. Notes by Moyra Martin
I attended this free one-day training course at Hove Town hall and can thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in energy issues.
The course was provided by Community Action for Energy (CAfE) which “promotes and facilitates local community–based sustainable energy projects through advice, support and training”.
At first I was rather daunted to discover that I had the least energy know-how in the group which included energy professionals and experienced volunteers but I was reassured by the facilitator, Anne that many participants on their courses start from scratch. It was helpful to meet people like Philip Wingfield who is Home Energy efficiency officer at B&H council and Chris Rowland who is heading up the TTLewes energy group.
The day was divided into 5 sections:
1) Intro to CAfE.
CAfE is a network of like-minded people with an interest in community-based energy projects.
Membership of the network is free and offers:
Community helpline 08701 261 444 for free support and advice
A website www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
The community support network for one to one advice and consultancy.
Travel bursaries
Training courses
A guide to energy efficiency projects
Case studies
Newsletter
E-news update
Annual conference
2) Getting your project started.
Researching: community statistics, needs, interest groups, voluntary organisations, vulnerable members of community etc.
Developing aims and objectives
3) Making your project work.
Team building, organisation, tips for good management, project partners, communication and publicity methods
4) Funding your project.
Funding sources and grants (extensive list)
How and where to apply
5) Additional information.
Useful telephone numbers, further reading, training websites etc
To conclude, I think they are an amazing group and can be a great help to us.
Energy Saving Week 22-28 Oct 2007
This week (22nd to 28th October) is ENERGY SAVING TRUST'S ENERGY SAVING WEEK
“The ‘Commit to save your 20%’ campaign is now in its second year and has moved on to the ‘group’ phase.
From our creative research we know that it’s important to let people know that they are not alone in taking action. In our advertising we therefore showcase real life individuals and groups who have made a commitment to save energy.
As ever, PR has an important role in supporting the campaign. Last year’s Energy Saving Week was the most successful ever, generating over 136 million opportunities to see or hear our key messages (£6.4 million worth of coverage!), and creating a huge increase in consumer awareness about energy efficiency.
The challenge for this year was to bring the ‘group’ phase to life. The recent Warm Words II report (please see attached) was also a key influence in this year’s theme, as it highlights the fact that addressing people as member of their local community can give them more power to act.
The theme for this year’s Energy Saving Week is ‘A community a day’ and will emphasise the power of communities and demonstrate how friends, family, networks, clubs, societies and community figures could spread the word and move people to play their part in the fight against climate change.
Having identified the social networks with the most potential to tackle climate change, we will demonstrate the power of clubbing together on climate change through a new concept – the ‘C8’ (Communities . You may, of course, have noticed that C8 sounds a little bit like G8, which is why we are recruiting the main players from a number of business and media organisations to be on the group.
During the week, we will hold a C8 round table summit where the main issues surrounding climate change and community action will be discussed – with Philip Selwood (Chief Exec. of Energy Saving Trust) chairing.
The other main feature of the week is that we shall be assigning each day with a different community theme. We will also be working in partnership with a number of organisations and businesses, who are supporting our campaign by promoting energy saving to their own members/employees. Details of our commercial and C8 partners can be found in the table below.”
Day, Community, C8 Member, Commercial Partner,
Monday, Women’s day, Women’s Institute, Café Direct,
Tuesday, Work day, Posties, Royal Mail,
Wednesday, Digital day, Online community, Through Facebook & other commercial sites,
Thursday, Family day, NCPTA (National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations), Procter & Gamble - Future Friendly,
Friday, Men’s day, Gadget enthusiasts, Dixons Store Group,
Saturday, Home Improvers day, Home improvers, B&Q,
Sunday, Faith day, CofE, N/A,
Please click here for more information.
Sustainable Energy – notes from 25th July meeting
Sustainable Energy Group
Renewable Energy
What are the most appropriate renewable types for Brighton and Hove?
What have we got already?
Microgeneration and/or community renewable projects?
What potential funding is there?
Energy Efficiency
How can we conserve energy?
What is being done already?
How do we engage people to do more and raise awareness?
Fuel Poverty
Where are the target areas for fuel poverty in Brighton and Hove?
What partnership agencies could we work with and support?
What funding exists?
The Premise
Just a few questions to get this started. I don't know if anybody else has started work on this yet so apologies if Im covering similar ground but I haven't seen anything on the existing pages.
The main focus of this group would I suggest be to reduce carbon emissions, initiate and support sustainable energy projects and alleviate fuel poverty.
This group would need to co-ordinate closely with health, building, transport and climate issues and engage with existing agencies.
A good starting point would be to scope all existing sustainable energy initiatives that are aligned to the transition process.
Please comment and get in touch.