Explorer, conservationist and community activist Ben Fogle, is backing Green Streets
What is Green Streets..?
British Gas has made £2m available as part of its Green Streets programme, to invest in innovative energy projects in Great Britain's communities.
They are encouraging local residents, businesses and community groups to apply to Green Streets with their project ideas that will help them to save and generate energy locally as well as engaging their wider community, with a chance to win a further £100,000 at the end of the competition.
Tackley has successfully bid for, and been awarded, one of the British Gas Green Streets awards.
Green Streets expects to deliver average energy savings of at least 25% for all the residential homes involved;  last year’s Green Streets scheme did just this and the overall winning street achieved savings of 30%..! 
The Tackley Green Streets Project
Welcome to the Tackley Green Streets Website
Now that the Tackley Green Streets Project is underway we will be regularly updating this website to keep everyone informed, so please come back soon.
The Green Streets Project has been divided into segments, each coordinated by local volunteers. These are detailed below with contact e-mail address:

Project Coordinator:

Paul Withers
paul.w@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Energy Saving:

David Kydd - Coordinator
david.k@tackleyvillage.co.uk

June Collier
june.c@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Gill Laughton
gill.l@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Robin Gregory
robin.g@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Rachel Strachen
rachel.s@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Energy Generation:

Angus Paxton
angus.p@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Communications:

Rachel Strachen
rachel.s@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Gill Withers
gill.w@tackleyvillage.co.uk

Energy Day:

Barbara Vaughan
barbara.v@tackleyvillage.co.uk

School Project:

Barbara Vaughan
barbara.v@tackleyvillage.co.uk
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The following links take you to sites which contain news on the project:
Tackley Green Streets is Live..!!

An enormous thank you to everyone for supporting the project. We have 78 households signed up and Tackley Green Streets is underway.
Key Information and Dates for Applicants:  

British Gas Energy Report for Tackley - Analysis from Green Homes Assessments Conducted 18th March to 1st April 2010
Energy Day - Saturday 25th September in the Village Hall - all welcome.
Tackley residents support the first Green Streets meeting in the Village Hall

Green Streets Prize Draw

 

The Tackley Village Green Streets prize draw was held in the village hall on July 20th. Prizes with a total value of over £31,000 were on offer from British Gas.

All 78 participants of our Green Streets project received a £50 voucher to be spent on energy saving materials and devices such as eco-kettles, stand-by savers, energy saving light bulbs and radiator panels. 24 households received vouchers worth £250 to cover the cost of cavity wall or loft top-up insulation. These measures should have a considerable impact on energy consumption and the warmth of buildings in winter.

There were five big prizes on offer – four vouchers worth £3,000 and one worth £10,000. The four winners of the £3,000 vouchers were Ollman, Kavanagh, Trefusis and  Paxton. They can have more substantial work done such as replacing an existing boiler with a more efficient condensing boiler or installing some equipment to generate renewable energy.

 

The main prize of £10,000 was won by Tina Cooke (shown here with Robin Bray of British Gas) for the installation of some renewable energy equipment. The renewable equipment selected by any of the winners will depend on the specific details of the house but the types of schemes that could be considered are solar water heating, solar PV panels and ground-source or air-source heat pumps.

 

Everyone present also heard Robin Bray, our British Gas Green Streets representative,  give an update on the installation of a ground-source heat pump and solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the village hall. These two projects should be complete by the end of the summer and will enable the village hall to considerably reduce its energy consumption. The benefit from the PV cells will be  shared with St Nicholas and the Methodist church, the other two community buildings in the project.

Tackley Village Green Streets Project  - Key Facts

Total Bid – worth £137,000

Saving energy

Generating energy

Village Event Plans

Green Streets Prize Draw - click on the photo above to view a larger image of this collage

5 Electricity Usage Monitors Available

on Free Loan

 

We have 5 electricity monitors available which can be borrowed by households involved in the Green Streets initiative – the monitors tell how much electricity you are using and how much it costs. Put your name on the rota in the village shop and you can use the monitor in your home for a week.

 

The monitor really helps to show which gadgets are energy guzzlers, and how you can reduce your energy use and costs!

Want to find out more about energy saving?

ClimateXchange is based in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. Visit their website at www.climatex.org

The Energy Saving Trust is an independent, UK-based organisation focused on promoting action that leads to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. It is a useful source of free advice and information for people across the UK looking to save energy, conserve water and reduce waste. Visit the Energy Saving Trust website
British Gas offers a wide range of energy saving products, supported by useful information about the energy and cost savings that these products provide.

For more information visit the British Gas website.