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Generating energy to heat your house or just use as electricity is possible from a variety of renewable sources. These include solar power, geothermal heat pumps, wood burning systems that provide direct heat or produce hot water to heat your house, electric wind power generators and small scale hydro-electric installations.
Links to websites in these areas are found below:-
Geothermal . Hydro-Electric . Solar Power . Wind Power . Wood Burning
Geothermal Heat
Site provides practical information for people wishing to install alternative energy systems in their homes - including grants, connecting to the national grid, and energy efficiency.
Organisation funded by the Government and provides a good explanation of what ground source heat pumps are and the costs involved in their installation.
Nottingham.
Renewable energy solutions for builders, property developers, architects and plumbing & heating engineers.
Small-scale Hydro-Electric Schemes
Site provides practical information for people wishing to install alternative energy systems in their homes - including grants, connecting to the national grid, and energy efficiency.
Provides a downloadable guide to small scale hydro schemes.
Solar Power
Site provides practical information for people wishing to install alternative energy systems in their homes - including grants, connecting to the national grid, and energy efficiency.
The BBC website has information on solar power at its climate change section.
A non profit Trade Association for the PV industry of Great Britain.
Leicester.
Company specialising in the supply and installation of renewable micro-generation wind turbines and solar PV panels.
List of approved solar installers in the UK from The Energy Saving Trust, a Government funded organistaion.
The Greenpeace website has information solar power and other renewable energies.
Nottingham.
Renewable energy solutions for builders, property developers, architects and plumbing & heating engineers.
Cambridge.
Large range of photovoltaic products including solar panel kits for narrowboats and caravans etc.
Suppliers and installers of domestic solar water heating systems for homeowners throughout Norfolk, and much of England.
Large range of photovoltaic products including solar panel kits.
Installers of domestic solar water heating systems.
A non profit organisation representing over 100 international members connected with the solar power industry.
Ferndown, Dorset.
Government accredited company specialising in the supply and installation of solar hot water and solar electricity systems.
Domestic Wind Power
Site provides practical information for people wishing to install alternative energy systems in their homes - including grants, connecting to the national grid, and energy efficiency.
Includes a list of small system suppliers suitable for domestic installations in its member section.
Leicester.
Company specialising in the supply and installation of renewable micro-generation wind turbines and solar PV panels.
Nottingham.
Renewable energy solutions for builders, property developers, architects and plumbing & heating engineers.
Wood Burning
Melrose, Scotland.
Manufacturer and installer of carbon neutral, wood pellet/log/woodchip stoves and boilers.
Site provides practical information for people wishing to install alternative energy systems in their homes - including grants, connecting to the national grid, and energy efficiency.
The British Pellet Club (BPC) is the Trade Association for the Wood Pellet Industry of Great Britain. The Club is a non profit organisation formed to promote the use of wood pellet heating within the UK.
A Devon based company supplying wood pellets all over the UK.
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