About the project

The Kent Renewable Energy Villages project is designed to promote home energy saving and renewable solutions to residents of the areas of Kent where residents are most likely to be off the main gas network.

Households without access to gas will generally be spending much more for their fuel than for the typical gas-heated household.

We have selected the areas of Kent with the highest proportions of residents off gas, and our aim is to assist residents in these areas with access to information and expert advice about both conventional energy-saving measures, and the newer technologies, such as building integrated wind power, which have just recently become certificated and viable, and which are increasingly practical in the current climate of increasing fuel prices, and increasingly attractive buy-back arrangements for home-produced renewable energy.

The project is being run with support from the Energy Saving Trust, and from the 5 Local Authorities of the target area. The project is a based on the Oxford Solar Initiative, which was started in 2004 and which has focussed on the northern area of Oxford.

Do contact us with any queries, or join our mailing list so that we can keep you informed of what's going on as the project develops.

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