A week at CAT

I have just got back from a week at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in very wet Wales where I was attending a course on renewable energy. I learned a lot about solar hot water, photo voltaics, wind and hydro turbines. I was trying to find out what might work here at Sorley and we are going to think very seriously about both solar hot water and PV panels. The government has just announced a new set of feed in tariffs (probably about 36p/unit) for decentralised generating that will come in from next April so the economics of the whole thing suddenly make a lot more sense. A 2kW PV array would give about 50% of what the average home uses.

Watch this space!

CAT is a rather strange place - veggie food and more eco-warriors that you can shake a stick at! Some of them need a good kick up the @rse, but they actually do some really goood stuff.