The Aim of the Energy Group is to look at ways in which we, as a  community can :

• Reduce our energy consumption
• Decarbonise our energy supply
• Make our energy supply as resilient as possible
• Enable community ownership of community scale renewables.

The Energy Group is convened by Malcolm Sayers

‘Zero Carbon Britain’ project

The Centre for Alternative Technology’s strategy for eliminating emissions from fossil fuels in 20 years can be downloaded from here.

‘The Power of Scotland Renewed’

The Power of Scotland Renewed report, based on research by independent energy analysts Garrad Hassan, and commissioned by Friends of the Earth Scotland, the World Development Movement, WWF Scotland and RSPB Scotland, shows that there is enormous potential to increase generation of electricity from renewable sources during the next two decades, so much so that by 2030 renewable energy can meet between 60% and 143% of Scotland’s projected annual electricity demand.

Read the full report here: PowerofScotlandRenewed_fullreport

or a summary here: PowerofScotlandRenewed-summary