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Application of small scale renewable energy technologies to the home

Executive summary

The EU Kyoto target for greenhouse gas reductions can be met if families realise that each can do something to reduce the environmental pollution associated with their energy usage. The project's global aim is to inform and educate teachers, students and their families so that they can realise the need and can assess the potential for energy efficiency (EE) measures and renewable energy sources (RES) in their homes.

The project will:

•  upgrade and integrate a number of European educational resources for primary and secondary schools by including methods for insulating the family home and incorporating small scale RES; the resources comprise the REC 'Green Pack' on energy usage and environmental pollution, the TREAM handbook 'energy savings in the home through the use of energy efficient appliances' , multi-lingual website of the European appliance information system and the ADEME multi-media game 'Ecoville'

•  develop a web-based methodology which will enable families to assess how RES can be incorporated into energy efficient homes

•  trial the new resources in schools to check their suitability and integration within other subjects

•  work with stake holders to encourage families of students to evaluate the potential of EE and RES in their homes

•  prepare a dissemination plan which will publicize the information that has been developed and the success of the methodologies that have been tried to inform and educate students and their families

The partners will collaborate to develop the master resources in English, which will then be translated into their home languages and adapt for local use and trialling. They will also work together to develop methodologies for training teachers and students and to identify ways of informing and motivating the families of the students receiving the training.

The deliverables of this project include -

•  integrated and holistic approach to energy efficiency and small scale RES providing either electricity and/or heat in family homes

•  suitable resource materials which can be translated and adapted for use in all other European countries

•  methodologies for training teachers, interesting students and motivating their families

•  resources and activities to assist the EU's Energy Efficiency and Green weeks

The partners will work with local stakeholders such as schools, retailers, utilities, installers, and energy advisers who can help with the methodology, publicize and support the trials. A dialogue will also be established with those responsible for social housing in order to help families living in such homes. Stakeholder workshops will be linked with project meetings to develop the dialogue on both a local and trans-European scale.

The partners comprise a group of environmental consultancies, energy agencies, cities and municipalities and an intergovernmental environmental organisation with national offices throughout the CEE states. These represent four of the 'old' EU members, five of the 'new' CEE members and one accession country.

The benefits of this action, if replicated on a European scale, could result in annual savings of 200 TWh (e) and 100 millions tons CO2. The shift in investment from generation to energy efficient appliances, improved insulation and small scale RES would be ca 200 billion euros and could be recovered within a period of ca 4-5 years. The major cost of such a campaign would be the training of teachers, energy advisers and installers, which would be small compared with the benefits.

This project is part funded by the Energy Intelligent Europe Program under contract 05/180 and runs from 2006 to 2008.

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List of Participants

 

Participant name	Country	Contact name
Sciotech Projects, Reading	UK	Pam Lewis Rayner Mayer
Community Energy Plus, Camborne	UK	Lindsay Knuckey Ben Simpson
SEVEn, Prague	CZ	Juraj Krivosik
HESPUL, Lyon	FR	Naomi Lebeque
Ademe, Nice	FR	Fabrice Juquois Claire Bonneville
Ecoserveis	ES	Joaquim Corominas
Comune di Bologna, Unità Qualità Ambientale	IT	Francesco Tutino
Agenzia Energia e Ambiente di Torino	IT	Mirella Artrthur
National Institute for research and development in informatics	RO	Adriana Alexandru Elena Jitaru
Prietenii Pamantului (Earth Friends)	RO	Ion Constantin
KAPE S.A.	PL	Ryszard Zwierchanowski
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe	HU	Eva Csobod
REC offices Prague Bratislava Poland Estonia	CZ SLO PL EST

 

For more information consult www.kyotoinhome.info

 

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Workshop: Achieving Kyoto in the home

Application of small-scale renewable energy sources to the home

University of Reading 20 June 2006

 

There is an increasingly urgent need to develop a more sustainable lifestyle to prevent climate change. This requires an understanding of the link between energy usage and environmental pollution and the need for everybody to use resources more efficiently. In addition, a switch from our current dependence on fossil based resources to one which makes increased use of renewable resources will assist in reducing the output of pollutants which can lead to global warming.

Since renewable resources are widespread and abundant it should be possible to inform and educate persons so that they understand the potential for incorporating such resources directly into their homes. Such an initiative will help underpin the grant funding recently made available by the Treasury for micro-generation linked to dwellings.

As preventing climate change forms one of the priority areas of the UNESCO led initiative for education for sustainable development, this theme should form part of the national curriculum. The aim of this workshop is to review what resources already exist for primary and secondary schools and attitudes to learning.

This will be followed by a resume of the new resources being prepared by the partners in the Kyoto in the home project, which is part funded by the EIE Agency as part of Energy Intelligent Europe initiative. These resources will include web based information, activities and worksheets for students and resources for teachers.

The workshop will end with a group discussion on how such activities can be trialled in UK schools and what training is required for new and existing teachers.

There will be a £10 charge to cover refreshments and lunch; please register by June 12. A notice will be sent to participants detailing the final programme and arrangements.

The KITH partners comprise the following institutions:

SEVEn, Prague, CZ; KAPE, Warsaw, PL; Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Szentendre, HU with its regional offices in Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia; National Institute for Informatics, Budapest, RO; ADEME, Nice, FR; Commune di Bologne, IT; Energy Agency, Turin, IT; Ecoserveis, Barcelona, ES; Community Energy Plus, Camborne and Sciotech Projects, Reading, UK.

 

If you are interested in attending this workshop to be held on 20th June, please write to:

Pam Lewis, Sciotech Office, University of Reading by Monday 20 November.

p.m.e.lewis@reading.ac.uk

 

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