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Community energy: a guide to community-based renewable energy projects
✍ Scribed by Cowtan, Gordon
- Publisher
- UIT Cambridge Ltd.;Green Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- The local series 4
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Part 1. An introduction to community energy -- 1. What is community energy? -- 2. Why community energy matters -- 3. History -- 4. Government policy -- Part 2. The technologies -- 5. Solar -- 6. Wind turbines -- 7. Hydropower -- 8. Heat pumps -- 9. Biomass -- 10. Anaerobic digestion -- 11. Community energy reduction -- 12. How the feed-in tafiff and renewable heat incentive work -- Part 3. Legals, financials and planning -- 13. Legal structures -- 14. Financial models -- 15. Some practicalities -- Part 4. Cold, hard reality and what might be -- 16. Why is it so difficult? -- 17. The future.
✦ Table of Contents
Part 1. An introduction to community energy --
1. What is community energy? --
2. Why community energy matters --
3. History --
4. Government policy --
Part 2. The technologies --
5. Solar --
6. Wind turbines --
7. Hydropower --
8. Heat pumps --
9. Biomass --
10. Anaerobic digestion --
11. Community energy reduction --
12. How the feed-in tafiff and renewable heat incentive work --
Part 3. Legals, financials and planning --
13. Legal structures --
14. Financial models --
15. Some practicalities --
Part 4. Cold, hard reality and what might be --
16. Why is it so difficult? --
17. The future.
✦ Subjects
Renewable energy sources--Great Britain--Management--Citizen participation;Renewable energy sources -- Great Britain -- Management -- Citizen participation;Great Britain
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