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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: renewable energy

Electricity Generation in Winchester District: 2025 Report

Annual update of data on electricity and renewable energy in Winchester District, noting the local implications of Clean Power 2030.

Published June 2, 2025
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Grid decarbonisation dilemma for South Downs National Park

The draft Local Plan for the South Downs National Park permits only small scale renewable energy projects. Is this fair?

Published March 13, 2025
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clean Power 2030, renewable energy, south downs national park

Winchester Station Approach masterplan

My comments on the plans for redevelopment of the area around Winchester Station. Once again a total blindspot on the crucial question of energy.

Published October 27, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Local Plan timetables overtaken by grid decarbonisation

My response to the Regulation 19 phase of the new Local Plan for Winchester District. The energy crisis is no less important than housing.

Published October 18, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Sir John Moore Barracks masterplan

My response to the public consultation on the proposed development of the Barracks. No sign of onsite energy generation to power 800 homes.

Published October 11, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged housing estates, renewable energy, winchester

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2024 Report

Annual update of data on electricity in Winchester District, noting gaps in commercial rooftop solar data and flaws in the 2023 Council Plan.

Published April 29, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged data centres, non-domestic rooftop, renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2023 Report

Annual update of data on electricity generated in Winchester District, focusing on growth in local rooftop solar.

Published May 31, 2023
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged LAEP, MCS data, renewable energy, rooftop solar, winchester

Local net zero plans need renewable energy goals

UK local authorities should set targets for renewable energy, to achieve net zero and to counter misleading objections to solar farms.

Published September 18, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged local authorities, renewable energy, solar farms

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2022 Report

This report details the amount of electricity generated in Winchester District and discusses an appropriate local target for 2050

Published February 28, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged LAEP, renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

What’s new on energy poverty: June 8th

A report from the International Renewable Energy Agency makes a telling connection between energy access and job creation in poor countries and former US Senator Tim Wirth previews Rio+20

Published June 8, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy for all, renewable energy, rio+20

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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things