Energy Archives - Dover & Deal Green Party https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/category/energy/ For our common good and the next generation's Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:33:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Easing fuel poverty and promoting energy security in East Kent communities https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/easing-fuel-poverty-and-promoting-energy-security-in-east-kent-communities/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:33:21 +0000 https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1806 Our team are staffing information points to help residents access free professional advice to cut energy and other utility bills this winter. The information drop-ins are: Free professional services by Groundwork South Green Doctors can be contacted on 0800 233 5255  And KentMoneyAdviceHub.com can be contacted on www.kentmoneyadvicehub.com phone 0800 8085622  The people most in need of […]

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Our team are staffing information points to help residents access free professional advice to cut energy and other utility bills this winter. The information drop-ins are:

  • 4th Tuesday of the month
    Deal Pantry in Deal Welfare Club & Social Institute, Cowdray Square, Deal, CT14 9EU
  • 2nd Saturday of the month at 10:30am
    Warm Welcome Drop-in Walmer Chapel, Station Road
  • 2nd Saturday of the month at 11:15am
    Warm Welcome Drop-in St Saviours, The Strand Walmer
  • And we’re also working on the Energy Saving info-point by the East Kent Climate Action team at Deal Library, until 1st March 2025. 

Free professional services by Groundwork South Green Doctors can be contacted on 0800 233 5255 

And KentMoneyAdviceHub.com can be contacted on www.kentmoneyadvicehub.com phone 0800 8085622 

Christine Oliver and Sarah Waite who hosted the Deal & Dover’s Winter Energy Crisis event

The people most in need of help are often the most difficult to reach, so we recommend that all of us keep an eye out for neighbours who are struggling and we hope they may be helped if these phone numbers are passed on to them.  

The information point to help people cut their energy bills was also available at a public meeting at Walmer Parish Hall before Christmas.  The meeting on Deal & Dover’s Winter Energy Crisis invited the public to discover how community-owned renewable energy project can cut costs of energy for homes and carehomes, schools and businesses.

Clearly if lots of roofs across our country can generate energy for the folks inside we cut down the need for big corporate oil and gas middlemen so that neither we as individuals nor our country is as dependent on international oil and gas prices we have no control over. This makes Britain more self-sufficient in energy terms, and we cut the burning of the fossil fuels which ramp up extreme weather events of  the climate crisis.

Saving money for ordinary folks in this way makes sense all round. This is why we have lobbied our MP to support the Sunshine Bill in Parliament (on 17th January) to force property developers to put solar on the roofs of all new homes. 

The guest speakers at the public event were from Kent Community Energy, Michael Bax and Stephen Perfect, who along with Duane Poppe live locally in the district and are keen to reach the local organisations who could benefit from their expertise. KCE (Kent Community Energy) are a Community Benefit Society, and can provide 3 forms of help. 

  1. They can give free quotes on the installations of roof-top solar arrays
  2. They can also to team up with organisations who have larger roofs (170m2 or more), to lease the roof space for 20yrs, install their own KCE solar array and supply the organisation with cheap, reliable energy. No need in this case for an organisation to come up with thousands up-front to install solar themselves. Examples of suitable organisations include small businesses, carehomes, schools, etc. 
  3. KCE also offer small grants to groups working to combat fuel poverty. 

Kent Community Energy can be contacted   by email info@kentcommunityenergy.org Or phone Duane the local KCE contact on  07418 077877.

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Solar Farms? Yes, but in the right place.  https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/solar-farms-yes-but-in-the-right-place/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:06:25 +0000 https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/?p=1477 The post Solar Farms? Yes, but in the right place.  appeared first on Dover & Deal Green Party.

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As the Green Party in Dover district we cover the DDC ward of Little Stour and Ashstone; it includes the villages of Ash, Wingham, Staple, Preston, Goodnestone and surroundings. This is our public statement on the issue of the big new solar farm that is proposed by Statkraft.

Save Ash Level

There was a public information session about the Ash Levels Solar Farm on Friday 17th March 2023 between 3.30 pm – 7.30pm at Ash village hall.

Renewables in the right place are the answer to UK’s problems of fuel security, and the need to protect communities here and across the planet from rapid, dangerous, climate change.
No food-growing fields should be sacrificed for renewable solar farms, because food security matters too.

Community renewables on the roof tops of all new and existing homes, solar canopies on all car parks & solar installations alongside rail tracks, also tidal, wind and hydro energy and green hydrogen are needed more than ever BUT are blocked by a lobby-laden government which prioritises the wishes of the big oil and gas lobby.

Renewables that do not impact food security, or key wildlife habitats, are the way to break the profiteering stranglehold of the oil and gas corporates who have pushed UK energy prices sky-high while their CEOs and boards pocket obscene billions that enable them to lobby MPs like Craig MacKinley all the more. (We have a lot of evidence on this matter.) Community renewable energy is often the most beneficial for ordinary residents in most areas.   Craig should speak to, and learn from, Chris Skidmore MP (Con)  and from Caroline Lucas MP (Grn).

On the issues of protecting wildlife habitat and farmland, please see this recent news item on our website. https://doveranddeal.greenparty.org.uk/sholden-even-more-building-on-precious-farmland/

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