Energy and Travel

• Insulate, insulate, insulate
• Exclude draughts to reduce energy use
• Install solar panels to generate own energy –   feed in tariff no longer available for new installations but now economically viable without the feed in tariff.
• Buy an electric vehicle – issues:
  • • • • high initial cost
        • running cost 1/3 that of petrol
        • range now improving
        • shortage of charging points (SID installed first 2 locally in Borough – March 2021)
• Install LED lights & solar lights
• Limit air travel – take the train where appropriate
• Wear a jumper and turn thermostat to 18˚
• Car sharing wherever possible
• Cycle, walk, public transport
• Better local transport – buses
• Reopen train station/Ivanhoe Line
• Electric trains, not diesel
• Use the iron less often
• Land based and off shore turbines
• Buy A rated devices  (note new scales now out subdividing old A rating)
• Solar farms ( 2 already within Desford Parish)