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BRENT PURE ENERGY - SHARE OFFER at Malorees schools
July 22, 2019 from 6pm to 7pm
Dear All, This is just to let you know that we have today (22nd July 2019) reached our investment target of £50,000 to put solar panels on Malorees Infant and Junior Schools. Many thanks to all of you who have invested in record time. We intend to complete the installations by the end of August so as to disrupt school life as little as possible and reap as much of the summer sunshine as we can!Best wishes for a sustainable future,NickSee More
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BRENT PURE ENERGY - SHARE OFFER at of eventual solar panels - Malorees schools
July 3, 2019 at 6pm to August 31, 2019 at 7pm
OK, not an event, more of a process, starting 26th July and ending when we, Brent Pure Energy, have raised £50,000 to put solar panels on Malorees schools. Investor get 4% interest and the school gets electricity at 5p/kWh. Can I refer you to the Forum discussions here or to our website brentpureenergy.org.uk where the Community Share Offer document can be downloaded?Thanks, Nick HartleySee More
I live in Hopefield Avenue with my family and have been attempting to reduce our domestic carbon footprint as much as possible over the years. This includes the obvious things like loft insulation, draught-proofing, secondary double-glazing (with heat reflecting glass), efficient condensing boiler, low energy light bulbs throughout and less obvious things like individual programmers on radiators so as not to heat rooms when noone's there, and a clean-burning wood stove. This year, hopefully, having been granted planning permission, I'll be installing a solar water heater of 3.3 square meters promising around 4000 units of hot water per annum. Other, only partly successful, projects so far have been rainwater collection and use for washing, and greywater recycling for flushing toilets.
Transport-wise, we joined the Streetcar club 4 years ago and also acquired a G-wiz electric car which gets us around London once or twice a week. Getting used to the limited range (40 miles) and remembering to charge the batteries takes a change of mindset, but you get used to it!
I'd be happy to discuss with or show any of you Transition folk these projects.
Transport-wise, we joined the Streetcar club 4 years ago and also acquired a G-wiz electric car which gets us around London once or twice a week. Getting used to the limited range (40 miles) and remembering to charge the batteries takes a change of mindset, but you get used to it!
I'd be happy to discuss with or show any of you Transition folk these projects.
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Capital City Academy
Posted on July 13, 2022 at 9:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
The solar PV installation at Capital City Academy has been running since June 17 and they will be reaping the benefits of reduced electricity bills in the region of £15,000 p.a. There are still some details to be sorted out like a display system in reception to show solar data, etc. and an export power purchase agreement. After that we'll carry on with our next project or two. Possibilities are Preston Manor school Wembley, Gladstone Park school and Willesden sports centre. Ideally, we go…
ContinueBrent Pure Energy - update
Posted on March 17, 2018 at 9:42 0 Comments 1 Like
If any of you reading this work at, have contacts or influence at these places, please get in touch with me:
Alperton, ARK Elvin, Capital City, JFS, Kilburn Park, Kingsbury, Leopold, Michaela, Preston Manor, Wembley primary, Wykeham (Schools) Wembley High Technology College
Chalkhill, Lonsdale, Wembley Health & Care, (Medical/Community centres)
Willesden Sports Centre
Now read on to find out why.....
Our first installation on Queens…
ContinueEnergy Coop Blues
Posted on February 11, 2016 at 13:01 0 Comments 0 Likes
Following on from my last post (hopefully not the Last Post!), finally met with the decision makers at Preston Manor School, Wembley: Head, Chair of Governors, Business and Site managers. I presented our offer (Saving on electricity of around £2700 a year, no cost to school, 5% to investors) and got some awkward questions in return. What if a child were to climb on the solar roof and get injured? What if a hurricane were to blow a panel off and damage people or property? (answer: our…
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Posted on January 21, 2016 at 12:46 0 Comments 0 Likes
Just wanted to let you all know that there is an Energy Coop functioning in Brent!
A group of us from TTKTK and Brent FOE started meeting about 18 months ago responding to FOE's campaign to get local schools to 'Run on Sun'. (i.e install Solar PV panels) We looked at the various ways of raising funds, ranging from local council money (no chance with the cut-backs) through donations (as e.g. organised by 10:10) to forming a Coop, which we have done. I attended a meeting…
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We shall see how I get on with it.
Thank you very much for your energy and water saving event.
It was incredibly useful and I hope to be able to borrow a similar electric meter about which I would not have known without the meeting.
Simon Walton