Community Energy Projects

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4.2 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to generate your electricity through a local, renewable energy project rather than buying it from a big supplier?

In this episode, Adam Shaw and guests consider the costs and practicalities of setting up and running community-led energy projects, do such initiatives make financial and environmental sense? Joining Adam are:

Jodie Giles, head of community and local energy at Regen Tanuja Pandit, director of Power Up North London Steve Shaw, the director of Power for People

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Presenter: Adam Shaw Producers: Diane Richardson and Paul Waters Editor: Alex Lewis

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.5	Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program About Your Money.
0:41.6	And today we're looking at the possibility of generating electricity through a renewable community energy project, rather than buying it from a big supplier.
0:51.2	What are your options if you want to club together with your neighbours?
0:54.0	Can it make
0:54.5	financial and environmental sense and how could things change in the future? Well, tomorrow,
1:00.1	afternoon, MPs will be debating whether local electricity generators should also become local
1:04.8	suppliers. We'll hear more about that later in the programme. But first, let's speak to one local
1:10.2	scheme to find out what local
1:11.8	community energy schemes are and what advantages they provide. Vicky is from the Grimsby Community
1:18.0	Energy Project and joins us on the line now. Hi, Hi, Vicki. Hi, Adam. Hello. Hello. First of all,
1:26.1	very simply, could you outline for me what a community energy project is?
1:32.7	Certainly.
1:33.6	There's all kinds of community energy projects, but in essence, they generate energy
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