Sidmouth Climate Week: Saturday 25th March >>> How low can energy costs get? How can communities get control of their energy? And how can we get to low-carbon energy?

The series of events for Climate Week comes to a close tomorrow afternoon with two talks on energy at the Kingswood & Devoran Hotel on the seafront:

Climate Week: How low can we go?

Saturday 25th March 2017 2:30 PM –to 4:30 PM

How low can we go? 
Electricity, emissions and costs 
by Prof R Green, Imperial College, London

Harnessing Community Energies: 
Prospects for a community-based transition to low carbon energy sources 
by Prof P Devine-Wright, University of Exeter 

Venue: Kingswood and Devoran Hotel, The Esplanade, Sidmouth EX10 8AX

A free event but donations welcome.

Part of Sidmouth Climate Week 2017.

Climate Week: How low can we go? | Sidmouth Science Festival

This blog has considered many of these issues:
Futures Forum: Local energy can be very profitable: "Seizing the opportunity of decentralised energy generation can provide new income streams for communities and councils."
Futures Forum: "In most other countries, renewable energy projects are owned by local communities: and so there's a huge groundswell of support for them."
Futures Forum: District heating systems run on waste... from Scandanavia
Futures Forum: Community energy cooperatives: "bootstrapping the alternative economy"
Futures Forum: Balcombe: making a community self-sufficient in electricity
Futures Forum: "Energy economics are changing rapidly and so the momentum is towards decentralised, smart and flexible energy systems."
Futures Forum: Small-scale, locally-controlled power generation
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