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‘What We Need To Do Now’ and Zero West’s zero carbon modelling

In 2019, I constructed a zero carbon scenario for the West of England region. Since then, Chris Goodall published his excellent new book “What We…

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Trams for Bristol?

Moving Bristol Forward – the campaign jointly launched by Zero West and Transport for Greater Bristol – today publish a study of how tram routes…

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Climate inequalities

Our third guest blog from Damiano Sguotti, a recent graduate of the Master’s in International Development at the University of Bath, during which he worked closely…

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Changing technology; changing society

Our second guest blog from Damiano Sguotti, a recent graduate of the Master’s in International Development at the University of Bath, during which he worked closely…

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Going local – a key move to reduce carbon emissions?

Damiano Sguotti is a recent graduate of the Master’s in International Development at  the University of Bath, during which he worked closely with Zero West….

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Power to the parishes

Feed in tariffs for renewable electricity made community energy schemes a pretty good proposition for investors. Now they’ve gone, it can be harder to make…

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Energy in the West of England – the future?

Some of you will have heard Tom Stedall’s presentation at our conference last week. We’ve been asked to put his slides up here – and…

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Conference conversations…

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Winter Conference yesterday, to all our speakers, all of you who came, the Elmgrove Centre staff, to Moveable…

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Regional energy – without the hot air?

What’s the West of England region’s solar electricity generation capacity today? How much more could there be if we covered every roof with solar panels?…

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Heat now, Sir? Certainly Sir – heat as a service

Bristol Energy’s Market Development Manager, Sarah Diver spoke to a highly engaged audience at Zero West’s recent ‘Zero Carbon Heat’ event. Sarah explained how proposing energy…

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