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The UK Government has launched a £10mn ‘Clear Skies’ campaign aimed ...

14/01/2003

The UK Government has launched a £10mn ‘Clear Skies’ campaign aimed at encouraging homeowners, schools and communities across the UK to develop and install their own renewable energy schemes. The Scottish Executive is also putting up £3.7mn to fund its own parallel scheme. The capital grants programme will be supplemented with measures designed to increase the uptake of renewable energy technologies and create a better understanding of the range of benefits they can deliver. Suggestions for local projects include: · A ‘solar street’ where water heating panels are fitted to the roof of every house in a street. · A small-scale hydropower project in a school. · Installing a wind turbine to provide electricity to a hospital. · Using energy crops, such as willow or poplar, to provide heat for a community farm.

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Region: UK

Keywords: Government - Alternative energy sources / Renewables

Subjects: Energy engineering, Resource use and management, Project Management, Skills, education and training, Policy and Governance, Solar energy, Water source heat pumps, Biofuels, Electricity, Heat, Wind power, Photovoltaics, Hydro power, Wind farms, Offshore wind farms