Not being much of a follower of sport I hadn’t heard of the World Games until last week. And why did the World Games pique my attention? Because the stadium that’s being built specially for it in Taiwan is the world biggest solar powered stadium in the world. It’s covered in a staggering 8844 solar panels.
After the games are held in July this year, this stadium will power 80% the neighbourhood surrounding it with the massive 1.14 gigawatt hours that it will produce every year. Now that’s forward thinking.
The stadium was designed by architect Toyo Ito, seats 55,000 people and cost over $150million to build.
The London Waste and Recycling board have decided that they need to look at the capital’s waste as a resource rather than rubbish to be disposed of. They are focussing on three main areas to reduce London’s waste problem, namely increasing recycling of priority materials such as plastics, extracting energy from food waste, and generating energy from waste wood.
The way it currently stands, London spends about £12bn on energy, but sends 500,000 tonnes of wood and one million tonnes of food waste to landfill.
The board believe that in the current economic climate, people will be receptive to a reuse agenda, and chairman Boris Johnson stressed the important economic case to be made for what they want to do. He believes that there will be an enormous economic advantage.
People across the UK have installed solar thermal panels on their roofs to produce their own energy, but until now none of these small scale generators have been paid by the government or energy suppliers for their power.
Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, is launching Good Energy HotROCs, the UK’s first renewable heat incentive that pays domestic solar generators money for the heat energy they produce.
As part of this scheme, Good Energy has launched a trial gas product – offered only as a dual fuel tariff to customers. Good Energy Gas charges a small premium which helps to fund the reward paid to customers on the HotROCs scheme. Good Energy hope that this ground breaking scheme will help the UK reduce its dependence on gas, boost growth in micro-generation and increase support for renewable electricity.
Tim and Fiona Start are always working on reducing their carbon footprint. They grow their own vegetables, buy local produce, and are active recyclers. For them, having already installed Solar PV which generates electricity, renewable heat technology in the form of a solar thermal panel was the next positive step.
This month they signed up to the Good Energy HotROCs scheme: “This is a great innovation and unique to Good Energy. It is another way to help us reduce our bills and improve the return on investment of our solar panels. It will help boost micro-generation in the UK and reduce the country’s carbon emissions.”
Juliet Davenport, Good Energy’s Chief Executive is proud of the company’s latest innovation. “I am delighted that Good Energy is leading the way with the first Renewable Heat Incentive in the UK. HotROCs is a simple effective reward and, like our pioneering work that supports small scale electricity generators, we are confident it will succeed and be copied by other UK energy suppliers. The launch of Good Energy HotROCs is a vital step in delivering the UK a renewable heat future.”
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The London Waste and Recycling board have decided that they need to look at the capital’s waste as a resource rather than rubbish to be disposed of. They are focussing on three main areas to reduce London’s waste problem, namely increasing recycling of priority materials such as plastics, extracting energy from food waste, and generating energy from waste wood.
