Petersfield Project

The initial study will look at how a single market town could fulfil its own energy requirements using local renewable resources. The results should offer a range of small, and micro, options which can be applied to a variety of towns across Hampshire and the surrounding counties. This is not a talk shop and we aim to get on the ground projects up and running in the near future. 

Project Benefits                                                                                                                     

Locally renewable energy schemes will aid rural economic development by bringing employment and trade to the area and will contribute towards integrated diversification of the local farming industry.

On the national and global scale, small local renewable electricity plants, like the proposed biomass power plants in Hampshire, are also beneficial because the emissions associated with their construction and operation are very low compared with the emissions associated with the construction and operation of conventional electricity plants, such as coal fired power stations. The power generating sector has been identified as a major source of excessive carbon dioxide emissions, the principal greenhouse gas. Renewable energy schemes reduce carbon dioxide emissions because they replace more polluting, conventional energy generating technologies that use fossil fuels, such as coal . Biomass is virtually carbon neutral.

Decentralised, local electricity production is more energy efficient than electricity that has been generated from a centralised location and distributed across the national grid. Decentralised electricity generation also reduces grid maintenance costs and reinforcement costs associated with accommodating peak electricity demand. Local decentralised power production also offers a greater security of supply and it is now national policy to encourage the development of renewable energy schemes and to achieve a much higher percentage of the UK electricity demand from renewable sources.