Our Final report to the Climate Challenge Fund has been submitted. We clicked send last night during Earth Hour by candle-light and on laptop battery-power!

Some highlights: (remember this is just in 12 months)

• We fitted 203 renewable energy products  (ie. 180 xPV,  21 xSolar Thermal, 1 xAir Source Heat Pump and 1 xGround Source Heat Pump).
• EST report that 192 home improvements took place – ie cavity wall and loft insulation.
• Our projected CO2 savings were in the magnitude of 367 tonnes of CO2 saved over 1 year, this takes into account our office electricity bills, car journeys to audit homes, etc. Most of these savings will last a long time as they come from renewable technology which should be still running well in 20-25 years.
• We hosted 25 separate training sessions where skills were passed onto the community.
• We organised and ran 32 community events.
• 9 new FT staff were employed in the renewable tech sector with our selected installers.
• Over 40 volunteers helped out on a range of our projects.
• 268 homes were visited and audits given
• 106 people were referred to the Energy Saving Trust
• 250 meters sq of ground was converted to grow vegetables.
• 3 new orchards were planted up with a total of 59 trees
• and about 300kg of waste was diverted from landfill.
• TL’s supporter email system rose to over 500 email addresses
• TL’s website has 2,000 unique session visits per month.
• and we have over 370 followers on social media. Twitter/Facebook.

So all in all. we think we did pretty well.

Thanks from all of the team who did an amazing job last year. Onwards to our next projects….

Documents:

• TL-CCF2-Final-Report-Web (pdf)
• Supporting Information 2011-12 (pdf) – large file may take time to download
• Linlithgow-STAP-Final (pdf) (Supplied by travel consultants JMP)