The Thames Valley Energy Agency, or TV Energy for short, is based at New Greenham Park in Newbury, West Berkshire.

For directions, visit the New Greenham Park website (click logo on right) or click here for location map.

The principal interests of the Agency relate to renewable energy (wind, bioenergy, solar, hydro) but also embrace green waste and green transport initiatives. Activities are targeted at both the countryside and the town/ urban environments and their respective communities.

Sponsors and supporters are drawn from the public and private sector, as well as academic and voluntary organisations creating a broad base for this innovative, 'not-for-profit' initiative.

Drawing on international research, TV Energy is a prime example of being able to 'think globally' and then 'act locally' for the benefit of the people of the Thames Valley and associated areas.

TV Energy has a core staff of 10 specialists in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors.

Team

Directors, Board Members and Observers

Sponsors

Local Authorities

The South East of England and the Thames Valley in particular are areas where considerable development is taking place. Such development can lead to an increased quality of life for individual citizens, however, it also leads to additional pressures on the local environment. One important way of protecting and even enhancing the environment is to maximise the use of sustainable (so called 'renewable') resources in harmony with other measures.

This critical topic has been addressed by a specialist Local Authority, ACTVaR team of officers comprising energy, environment and LA21 expertise. Their collective view was that the best way to make substantive progress is to use the opportunity of European Commission funding to help establish a non-profit making, Energy Management Agency for the whole of the Thames Valley (Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Surrey has also joined by association). 

This Agency acts as a focus for all sustainable energy and related activity (in the 'one stop shop' sense) and has been established in such a way as to facilitate private - public sector partnership activity. Education, training and communication are also key activities of the centre.

In 2002, TV Energy also became one of the 10 'Countryside Renewable Initiative' support teams. See links for more info.

The focus is renewable energy (sustainable energy sources) and in the Thames Valley this means making the most of our potential to use the sun (solar power), plants and trees (biomass), waste (particularly 'green' waste fractions), the wind (turbines or wind mills) and water (micro-hydro).

Energy efficiency is also linked as is green waste and green transport initiatives to ensure that sustainability can be addressed in the fullest possible way. TV Energy is also linked closely with existing initiatives in both the private and public sector (such as those started under Local Agenda 21).

TV Energy works in partnership with local EEACs (Energy Efficiency Advice Centres), click here to find out more.

TV Energy's Initial Agency Programme of Work (2001 - 2004), as agreed with the European Commission (PDF 34K).

TV Energy is the co-ordinator of a European initiative through the SAVE II Programme to establish Energy Management Agencies in the United Kingdom (Thames Valley), Obstina Rousse in Bulgaria and the Region of Murcia in Spain.