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Power for People (to sell locally generated renewable energy to local people)

AncientMariner
I am both a County Councillor and a Community Councillor.


Recently an organisation Power for People have asked our Community Council to support the Local Electricity Bill. This would enable Parish, Town or Community Councils to set up their own energy companies to sell locally generated renewable energy to local people.  http://www.hawardencommunitycouncil.gov.uk/Hawarden-CC/UserFiles/Files/Item%209%20Local%20Electricity%20Bill.pdf


Whilst I can accept and understand that if our Community Council wished to install solar panels on our office (it is based in a small bungalow) we could sell the surplus electricity produced. However that would be into the network. It would, no doubt, be an interesting calculation to prove that this surplus electricity was actually consumed locally. The only other option would be to have our own network of distribution cables !


Or has the Director of the organisation who sent the email misunderstood how surplus electricity is sold?  Certainly a council could sell waste heat. in the form of steam or hot water produced by a waste incinerator for local housing or perhaps a sports complex (I am thinking of a swimming pool etc) but for either there would have to be arrangements if no heat or too much available.


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    I have a small portable generator. It is rated at about 3kVA. It was originally designed to run on petrol, and still can. It was converted to run on bottled gas, but I can chose the energy source.  Every home should have an independent, quiet, dedicated generator that can run on bottled gas, or natural gas from the mains or liquid fuel. The generator would be efficient if only used when needed. It would be independent of the distributed mains. It would train users to be careful with the running costs. It could charge batteries for use at night when silence is required. A simple solution to domestic energy production.


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    I have a small portable generator. It is rated at about 3kVA. It was originally designed to run on petrol, and still can. It was converted to run on bottled gas, but I can chose the energy source.  Every home should have an independent, quiet, dedicated generator that can run on bottled gas, or natural gas from the mains or liquid fuel. The generator would be efficient if only used when needed. It would be independent of the distributed mains. It would train users to be careful with the running costs. It could charge batteries for use at night when silence is required. A simple solution to domestic energy production.


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