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.

Team

Directors, Board Members and Observers

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.

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.