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The Suffolk Carbon Charter celebrated its 2nd birthday with a special event at The Bull Hotel in Woodbridge.
ANSWER partners have brought together 3 years of experience engaging SMEs in Energy Reduction. This evaluation summarises all of that work together, and highlights some of the different options available.
The past few months have been a very exciting time for schools involved in the ANSWER project. Here Cherish Watton - a recent graduate from Dereham 6th Form and young person consultant on ANSWER's work - takes us through some of the highlights.
During the ANSWER project a broad range of energy initiatives have been set up to engage schools, communities and businesses to save energy and lower their carbon footprint. Be inspired and experience the ANSWER project!
The ANSWER project team have been working for three years on a wide range of pilot projects to support the process of energy reduction. The highlights and key findings have now been put together in one place as a source of inspiration and reference tool for others.
The Seaport of Bruges (Zeebrugge) is a very favourable area to install wind turbines. Some of the terminal companies located in the south of the seaport already have specific plans to invest in wind energy in the near future. Instead of all investing separately in a cable connection to the local grid, port authority MBZ and POM WF have paid for a feasibility study to examine the advantages of a joint grid connection. You can read the most important outcomes of this study here.
October 20-21 saw environmental experts descend on Ipswich from Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Germany for the end conference of the ANSWER project. Over 20-0 delegates gathered to find out about ANSWER’s successes and look ahead to the next energy challenges.
The End Conference of the ANSWER project also saw the announcement of the inaugural winner of the European Green Business Network's "Greenest Business" Award - as voted for by you. Drumroll please....
SMEs represent over half of energy use, yet they also face very specific obstacles in reducing their energy use. This report draws on work undertaken by ANSWER to support this progress - identifying key obstacles and their solutions.
At the local endconconference 'Energiek samenwerken' in Flanders, Greenbridge was announced to be the Flemish EGBN award representative in Ipswich. 9 other businesses/organisations (out of the 23 Flemish cases online) received a poster as an honor for their business' energy saving efforts.