Introduction
Clean power available in UK
Twentyone for the twenty first century
Festival Renewables - UK
History of Renewable Energy
Nuclear Power
Pedal Power
Renewables Companies & Organisations in the UK - Index
Wiki - Comprehensive article for you to help us update
Introduction
Green Festivals and events are an ideal opportunity to show off small stand-alone systems. Solar and wind can provide quiet safe small scale systems.
There is an educational role - providing an introduction to the wider world of sustainable energy, understanding power, electricity, thermodynamics, energy efficiency issues.
As well as providing an introduction to renewables we hope our website will open out the wide wide world of renewables for you.
This solar tracker recently had its debut at Earthwise. Between the panels are a couple of light sensors. These signal the motor and adjust the angle. Achieving this optimum angle boosts the efficiency of solar panels.
CLEAN POWER AVAILABLE IN UK
Letter to Guardian 18.5.06
"It would seem Tony Blair has confirmed his decision to embark on the unnecessary road to nuclear power without giving any consideratin to the alternatives. There are 21 renewable technologiesavailable in the UK that are affordable, safe and clean and do not threaten the planet. But Blair's reluctance to explore these possibilities means that he may never realise that the UK has the ability to meet its electricity needs three times over with the use of wind power at sea alone.
"Instead of paying for nuclear power Blair should be investing in a future of renewable energy, devoting his attention to fixing the "Technical problems" he sees with wind and solar power. Nuclear power doesn't provide a solution to climate change and can only bring danger and disruption to the UK.
Jean Lambert MEP
Green Party, London"
TWENTY ONE FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
Electricity production
1. Hydro power
2. Biomass (solid, gas, liquid)
3. Wind
4. Geothermal (High Temperature)
5. Solar photovoltaic (PVs)
6. Solar thermal electricity
7. Energy from waves
8. Energy from sea currents (tidal energy)
9, Energy from osmoses (difference of pressure between river and salt water)
10. Upwind power stations (power plants which play on the fact that warm
air is lighter than cold air and creates a flow of air from the soil to
the sky)
Heating and cooling
11. Passive solar architecture
12. Surplas low temperature energy from co-or trigeneration plants
(based on biomass or geothermal)
13. Solar collectors for heating, cooling and drying (industrial use)
14. Geothermal (low temperature)
15. Wood pellets / wood chips
16. Dried and pressed biomass from energy crops
When
300,000 + years ago
6,000 years ago
5000 years ago
2200 years ago
1000 years ago
1839
1870
1889
1930s/1940s
1954
1958
1970
What First use of fire for cooking
Working animals
First sailboats
First water wheels
Wind power beginnings
Edmond Becauerel first describes photovoltaic effect
Selenium photovoltaic cells
77 Factories across US producing wind pumps for pumping water
Huge expansion in Us of Wind turbines for producing electricity Bell Laboratories develop first crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell First satellite using Photovoltaics - VANGUARD 1 Prof Steven Salter startys wave energy group
Green Festivals and events are an ideal opportunity to show off small stand-alone systems. Solar and wind can provide quiet safe small scale systems. 
