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Be Part of Something Big This Winter in Talybont on Usk
Talybont on Usk Energy is asking residents and businesses in the Talybont on Usk
Community Council Area to be involved in Carbon Footprinting the community.
This project is an important early stage in helping to make the community carbon neutral. A group of volunteer carbon footprint surveyors, who live in the area, have already been trained and more training for more volunteers will take place later in January. To make those being surveyed feel more comfortable with the process all the volunteer surveyors are from the local area.
Surveys should take no more than half an hour and those being surveyed would need to have 12 months' worth of fuel bills available.
"Community Carbon Footprinting is not about judging how much energy an individual is using," said Alice Goldstone who is coordinating the project and was involved in carbon footprinting Knighton and Presteigne. "We simply want to find out what the carbon footprint of the entire community is so that Talybont on Usk Energy is in a better position to continue to help make the community carbon neutral. It will give us a baseline against which we can check our progress."
If you would like more information about Community Carbon Footprinting, becoming a volunteer surveyor, or being surveyed please visit www.talybontenergy.co.uk or you can contact Talybont on Usk Energy's Project Development Officer on Alice Goldstone on 01547 520374 or .
Contact details:
Alice Goldstone
Tel. 01547 520374
Email:
Notes to Editors
Community Carbon Footprinting - This process involves measuring the amount of carbon dioxide a community produces. The boundary for a community can vary but is usually a town or village. In this case it is a Community Council area. All types of fuel are included in the survey along with electricity. As well as heating, electricity and travel carbon footprinting can also include other contributors to carbon dioxide such as the distance food travels to reach our plates and the amount of waste a community recycles. In this case only electricity, heating and travel will be measured.
Carbon Neutral - Carbon dioxide is the most abundant of a number of greenhouse gases. In order to become carbon neutral a person or community needs to save the same amount of carbon emissions as is produced when they use energy. This saving can be made by a combination producing green/renewable energy, becoming more energy efficient and by planting trees.
Talybont on Usk Energy - a not-for-profit community enterprise, dedicated to reducing our impact on this beautiful part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. A Company Limited by Guarantee, our objects are:
- To promote understanding of renewable energy sources, uses of alternative energy and related ecological and environmental issues;
- To promote renewable energy schemes in, and for the benefit of, the community of Talybont- on-Usk, including the provision and maintenance of a hydro-electric generating turbine at Talybont on Usk reservoir;
- To promote the efficient use of energy and use of renewable sources of energy.
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