Communities bringing down energy bills
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Meet the community groups trying to make energy more accessible and affordable.
Laura Heighton-Ginns visits a fuel poverty workshop in the UK and hears about the devastating effects of not being able to afford food and why it’s so important to have a secure energy supply.
Laura hears from Soren Hermansen - the Director of the Energy Academy on the island of Samso in Denmark. Samso controls its own energy supply and advises other communities on how they can do the same.
And we find out about a project in Tanzania run by Janet Maro. Janet's project powers a centre for training farmers using experimental technology to harness the energy from the sun and collect rain water.
Presenter / Producer: Laura Heighton-Ginns Image: Janet Maro and her team; Credit: Janet Maro
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| 0:00.0 | Anyone that tells people who are accused of sorcery are also blamed for being sorceress. |
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| 0:12.0 | I started having a strength in me. I have to stand up for other women. |
| 0:16.9 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello, I'm Laura Heightengens. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm currently on a train to Colchester in the UK, |
| 0:31.8 | where one community is fighting the energy cost crisis |
| 0:35.2 | that's hitting households around the world. |
| 0:37.9 | Colchester Energy Community is offering free advice and even home visits to help keep energy bills down. |
| 0:44.7 | We'll hear how they're doing it in just a moment. |
| 0:47.8 | Also on the program, the Federation of Community Energy Groups with huge ambitions. |
| 0:53.3 | About half of the EU population could, by 2050, be producing their own energy, |
| 0:59.6 | be it themselves at their homes or in an energy community. |
| 1:03.7 | We'll hear about fuel poverty and why it can be so important to have a secure energy supply in colder climates. |
| 1:10.5 | Being in a cold home is lethal. It leads to all sorts secure energy supply in colder climates. Being in a cold home is lethal. |
| 1:12.8 | It leads to all sorts of health conditions. |
| 1:16.0 | The number of deaths is going to be hard to ascertain statistically, |
| 1:19.2 | but we know that it's going to rise exponentially. |
| 1:22.8 | And the innovative project that's safeguarding a community from power cuts in Tanzania. There is energy, there is light. |
| 1:29.3 | The solar energy is much more reliable than the energy from the national grid at the moment. |
| 1:35.3 | This is Business Daily from the BBC. |
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