| About Us
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.
Drawing on research and Demonstration projects 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 9 specialists in the renewable
energy and energy efficiency sectors, and calls upon a broader range of expertise in associated companies.
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.
TV Energy 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.
| What
topics does it cover? |
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). In addition, air and ground source heat pumps are of interest.
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.
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