Group Officers
The Group has been reconstituted as a Community Interest Company. The Directors are:
- Dave Rawlings
- Nelly Trevelyan
- Jim Hall
Peter Jones from North York Moors National Park Community Renewable Energy Project is supporting the group.
Aims and Objectives
To investigate and select one or more community projects in energy conservation and renewable energy appropriate to the populations and resources of Spaunton and Appleton le Moors.
Scope
- Investigate the technical and economic bases of the various renewable energy sources.
- Compare the cost, timescale and deliverables of the approaches.
- Define and prioritise implementation projects.
- Obtain funding for detailed design studies on selected projects.
Factors to Consider
- Capital cost
- Energy savings
- CO2 savings
- Financial savings and payback
- Number of households
- Economies of scale
- Planning issues
- Legal issues
- Etc?
Potential Projects
- Village-scale, multi-fuel electricity generation
- Village-scale wind turbine
- District heating: 50 houses
- District heating: 10 houses
- District heating: 5 houses
- Single house heat pump
- Single house wind turbine
- Solar hot water
- Photovoltaic
- Improved insulation
- Collectively invest in a remote wind turbine
- Collectively purchase electricity from renewable sources
More information will be added to this page as the project progresses.
