How can ECEC help individuals in energy generation?

Map Branches

• Community
  • connect neighbours
    • building work
    • Changeworks tenement projects
  • create non-contiguous community
    • group power
    • across Edinburgh
  • Social enterprise?
    • Within Co-op?
• 'Fuel'
  • Biomass
    • Wood
      • make pellets for boilers?
        • existing supplier
      • waste
        • tree surgeons
        • building trade
        • Council
      • available at recycling centres?
        • make pellets
        • season wood
        • payment
          • LETS?
            • Ask Jess at CW
          • exchange for recycling?
    • paper
      • recycling backlogs?
        • make logs instead?
          • mass-produced
          • Council
          • LEEP
      • DIY log-making tool for home use
  • Sun
    • ????? Update later
    • enough happening already?
  • Wind
    • don't promote mini-turbines on dwellings
    • minimum viable size?
    • how to support communities?
      • PEDAL / Portobello
  • Water
    • Support
      • who?
        • Greener Leith
        • Transition Deep South
      • how?
        • 'umbrella' for funding
          • constituted
          • bank account
    • mini-hydro on Water of Leith?
      • examples?
• Cost
  • LETS
    • at least one existing scheme in Edinburgh
    • local currency
  • Discounts
  • Special rates with power supplier
  • Grants
  • Social capital?
    • ask Megan
• Equipment
  • ease planning consent
  • stoves
    • convert fireplace
      • "The Chimney Sweep"
      • grants?
    • Edinburgh smoke control
      • many OK for "dry untreated wood"
      • approach suppliers / manufacturers
        • UK / Scottish manufacturers?
        • Edinburgh suppliers
          • The Stove Center
            • Models OK in SCA
          • The Burning Question
        • best value
          • Examples
            • Aga Little Wenlock (£500-600)
        • group discount
  • solar panels
    • ????? Update later
  • boilers
    • pellets?
    • waste wood
  • meters
    • 'smart'
    • feed back to grid
      • feed in tariff
      • guarantee from supplier?
      • does BERR/DECC Energy Act 2008 apply in Scotland?

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