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Hi again friends
Tutbury EcoPower
If you have been following my blogs for any time, you will have noticed by now that I am both a very practical engineer and I believe passionately in reducing energy waste. This is also good business in my book. ”Why do I bring this up?” you may be asking. Well, for the last 2½ years, I have been getting my hands dirty, as it were, by supporting a community organisation, Tutbury EcoPower.
Our aims are to reduce the local community’s carbon footprint in a series of practical measures in a sustainable way to benefit the community. In practical terms, this means saving residents money with lower energy bills and more efficient homes.
In the Summer of this year, we as one of nearly 1,000 communities, entered a national EnergyShare Competition to win a large sum of money for community based energy projects. After 2 rounds of voting, Tutbury EcoPower has reached the final and we are competing with 5 others in the medium project range and we are now looking for your help to win this EnergyShare competition by voting for us on the EnergyShare website by Saturday, 3 December. At stake is a £75,000!
With this £75,000, Tutbury EcoPower has committed to spending it all on Solar PV panel installations for community buildings including the Village Hall used by all manner of children’s and adult organisations and classes, the Old Tutbury School used by scouts, youth club and mother and toddler groups. By these means, we hope to kick-start this particular endeavour into a sustainable future with funding generated out of the surpluses.
In fact, our flagship project is a 75kW mini hydro-electric scheme alongside a local weir on the River Dove and when operational, we hope to generate some £30,000 per annum for the good of the local community by funding other projects. It is worth saying that every penny we generate, will go back to the community as the team are all volunteers such as Chartered Engineers, Accountants, project managers, hydraulic engineers and many other skills.
Tutbury EcoPower has gained a great deal of credibility over the 3 years of its existence and the stakeholders and supporters read like the who’s who of the business and political world in the UK.
So please share this with your colleagues, family and friends on Facebook and, of course VOTE, VOTE VOTE for a really worthwhile cause by 3 December>>>>
Hasta La Vista
Editor Phil Norris
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