Solar Streets and Earth Hour Solar Streets Update
In September 2021, Climate Action Wendover launched the Solar Streets Project and we’re delighted that 14 households have signed up to install solar panels with four installations already completed. We caught up with one resident who had 14 new panels installed on an east/west facing roof to find out if they had seen any benefit – even during the cloudy winter months and this is what we learnt:
that will help reduce our evening usage costs significantly."
With the clocks going forwards on Sunday 27 March, longer days and hopefully more sunshine, we’ve decided to re-launch the Solar Streets project once again for Wendover and Villages. If you are interested in learning more about our community scheme and the benefits of switching to solar then please join our Zoom call on Tuesday 15 March at 7.30pm. The session will last about an hour "Our solar panels have enabled us to maintain and you can register to attend at https:// our electricity bills at more or less the same solarstreets.co.uk/wendover. level they were at before our electricity price nearly doubled, so having them has Earth Hour definitely saved money on our daytime use, Climate Action Wendover would like to even when this isn't very high. I've switched encourage as many households as possible to to using an electric slow cooker some days, take part in Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday and on a sunny day the solar generation 26 March. All you need to do is switch off as covers all of that usage, meaning we don't many electrical items and lights as possible. have to use the gas cooker or electric oven To find out more about Earth Hour and how in the evening which is expensive. Later this this has been a catalyst for change then visit year I would like to get a battery as I think https://www.earthhour.org/.
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