Transition Exeter

Following the enormous success of its previous tours the Devon Association for Renewable Energy would like to announce the last two Transformation Trails of this series.

On the 5th March 2010 the solar thermal tour will take place across the Greater Dartmoor area. This will be an opportunity to see how a variety of installations are generating hot water from the sun. The day will consist of visiting four solar thermal panel arrays of differing scales, situations and applications. They include a domestic household, swimming pool, restaurant and community facility.

The final tour will take place on the 17th March and will be visiting sites that have already installed heatpumps. Did you know that you could extract heat from air, water or the ground beneath your feet to warm your building? The sites themselves include business, visitor centre, tourist attraction and domestic examples of air-source, water-source and ground-source heat pumps.

With the introduction of a renewable heat incentive scheduled for April next year there may be no better time to investigate installing solar panels and heat pumps.

These tours will be lead by a DARE technical officer and each delegate will receive an information pack brimming with case studies, factsheets and data. The delegates will be transported by minibus to each site and will be able to ask the site owners questions about their technologies discovering the process from inspiration through to installation.

Are you a member of a community group who want to produce sustainable hot water for your community facility? Are you a householder who wants to reduce your carbon footprint? Are you a school with a roof area that could house solar panels? Or are you a local business who is concerned about fossil fuel supply and security? Do you have a swimming pool that you would like to heat through a renewable technology? We welcome all kinds of delegates to see these solar hot water and heat pump installations in operation.

The delegate fee is based on a sliding scale dependant upon the type of delegate: community representative (£5 pp), individual (£10pp) & business representative (£20pp). The cost is per tour and includes transport and lunch.

Please contact DARE by telephone 01837 89200 or email mail@devondare.org if you are interested in attending. You can also visit the DARE website for more information.

These tours are funded by Greater Dartmoor LEAF, incorporating funding from the EU, Defra, SWRDA and LEADER and The Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund, West Devon Borough Council’s Community Project Grant and Renewable Energy 4 Devon project.