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Othona Community to feel sunpower
The Othona Community in Burton Bradstock are fitting 36 solar panels to its chapel roof. Tony Jacques, warden, says the project is a modern fulfilment of an old dream. He says that the nuns who had the chapel built in 1937 were dedicated to lives of extreme self-sufficiency, harvesting rainwater and living without electricity.
Scottish Power and the Low Carbon Buildings programme have funded the project along with two generous individual supporters. The project will cut Othona's carbon footprint and its energy bills but the aim is also to spread awareness of green technology.
Their website will show how much power is being generated at any moment, making it a possible resource for school projects.
Tony Jacques says that going green in this way is a small but significant step in the direction of living a life more in harmony with the natural world.
Solar panel company receives green award
as reported in View From Bridport 6th January 2010
Bridport's only specialist solar hot water panel installer has picked up a green energy award.
Jim Shearman was highly conmmended in the Regen SW 2009 Green Energy awards in the 'installer of the year' category. Regen SW promotes renewable energy on behalf of the South West of England Regional Development Agency.
The judging was based on customer satisfaction, growth of the business and the quality of the installations.
Jim has been supplying and fitting British-made solar panels for over 10 years all over the south west, on houses, schools, farms and even prisons. He moved from Cornwall to Bridport in 2002.
In his spare time he is a member of the Bridport Renewable Energy Group, a voluntary group of experts whose goal is to help the local community by reducing its dependence on fossil fuel, and is also a director of Transition Town Bridport.
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