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Sustainable Streatham Energy Group Launch
13/03/2010 13:00
14/03/2010 16:00
Europe/London
In its growing and continuing quest to work with local residents to help Streatham become a greener community, Sustainable Streatham (SuS) has organised a new group dedicated to domestic and commercial energy reduction. The launch of SuS’s Energy Group will take place on Saturday, 13th and Sunday, 14th March between 1pm and 4pm at St Leonard’s Church,
Tooting Bec Gardens, Streatham, London SW16 1RB. Private companies, Not For Profit organisations, community groups and key speakers will attend the event.
The impetus for this event was the need for community members to be able to get information about energy reduction and how to do it, and to find out about organisations that would support local citizens to move to reducing energy consumption and to expanding renewable energy. The
exciting news that the government has decided to launch a Feed In Tariff or (FIT) which would pay households for any renewable energy they produced has created urgency and so this event is being organised.
The exciting thing about the Feed In Tariff is that households will be paid for ALL energy produced – not just the excess that they feed into the grid. This makes the investment in renewable energy much more affordable to millions and could be a major factor in enabling the UK
to reduce it’s CO2 emissions. A similar Feed In Tariff has already made a major impact in Germany where 70% of renewable energy produced is attributed to the Feed In Tariff.
The focus of the SuS Energy Event is to:
- Educate local residents on the steps to take to reduce energy
consumption, which will result in savings to them and less CO2 to the
planet. - Educate residents about how the Feed In Tariff, which will launch in
April 2010, will generate money for them and thus enable green energy
like solar panels to be affordable. - Provide information about a range of renewable energy options,
technologies, grants, loans and payment schemes available that are
making renewable energy accessible to us all.
