CO2Sense recently celebrated the official opening of Clayton Hall Farm Bioenergy - a pioneering anaerobic digestion facility near Huddersfield. CO2Sense have supported this project for 4 years, and invested £600,000 to develop and progress the project...

Venue: City Hall, Bradford Date: Saturday 8th October Time: 9.00-13.30 Are you interested in renewable energy for Bradford? If so, come to Bradford City Hall on Saturday 8th October, to learn about local opportunities, and options for setting up cooperatives...

CO2Sense recently visited several biomass boilers in and around York - kindly shown around by George Sands, Sustainability Engineer at York Council. These boilers are excellent examples of practical and cost effective renewable installations. The sites...

Whitby Esk Energy project to install a small-scale hydroelectric turbine on the River Esk at Ruswarp, near Whitby. We would like to invite you to attend one of our two events to launch our share issue for £320,000 in Esk Energy (Yorkshire) Limited...

Not all of you may be aware of what or who ‘ The Yorkshire and Humber Microgen Partnership (YHMP)’ is. CO2Sense is an active member of this partnership and we thought it was only right to give you a quick overview of what the YHMP is trying...

The 2050 Challenge The UK is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050, relative to 1990 levels. We need a transformation of the UK economy while ensuring secure, low carbon energy supplies to 2050. We face major choices...

Sheffield Renewables is celebrating gaining planning permission for our Jordan Dam hydro power scheme near Meadowhall. The project has been supported by CO2Sense since its early days of development. Rob Pilling, Managing Director said "Planning permission...

William Hague, MP for Richmond (Yorkshire) officially switched on the River Bain Hydro on Friday 13 May 2011. In front of a crowd of supporters, William Hague MP took time to visit the village of Bainbridge in the Yorkshire Dales, to switch on what is...

Two hydro-electric plants in North Yorkshire have won awards this week for their work producing renewable electricity and working with their local communities. Settle Hydro won the Best Community Initiative Award at the national Climate Week Awards, whilst...

Danny Ballam's (water power enterprises) account and pictures of the installation of the Archinedean screw at the beautiful and sunny Bainbridge. "Tuesday saw the arrival of River Bain Hydro's 8.5 tonne Archimedean screw from Germany, ready...

Further to the last snowey update regarding the community hydro project in Bainbridge, a lot of work have been progressed on site. The Archimedean Screw is leaving Germany today (pictures below) and is due to be delivered on site next Wednesday!!! I will...

The 330kW hydro power project currently in construction in Burley in Wharfedale reached an exciting milestone earlier this month with the turbine being delivered to site from France and maneuvered into position. The project will begin commissioning in...

CO2Sense have recently commissioned some independent research into microgeneration support needs. This research will explore what businesses need to support the installation of microgeneration technologies. If you would to be involved in this research...

I am pleased to announce that the CO2Sense funding for 2011/12 has now been released. If you are looking to develop a renewable energy project over 45kW installed electrical capacity, in Yorkshire, please get in touch. The investment will be repaid over...

Construction of the Bainbridge Community hydro project is still progressing but has been hampered slightly by the very snowy and very cold weather conditions over the past few weeks. This is shown particually well in the picture below of the "main...

Further to last months blog, the construction of Burley hydro project is continuing and the updated pictures below show just how big the civils works and ultimatly the the project will be!

Civils work is progressing in-line with programme durations, although not with current programme order. Stoned paths around site have been created to increase safety, and a temporary staircase has been created to allow safe access to the in-river works...

Construction has commenced at another CO2Sense funded hydro project in Burley in Wharfedale, this is a commercial Kaplan hydro turbine with an installed capacity of 329kW. Below are a couple of picture of the site at the moment and they give a really...

Construction Compound Channel Dig Starts! More Digging! I will keep updating the Network with how the construction of the 45kW Community hydro scheme progresses. Until next time!

Hello everyone! The arrival or Autumn has seen the Government pledge not to alter the Feed-in-Tariff until its planned review in 2014. This is excellent news and lays to rest the rumours that had been circulating about tariffs being reduced due to budget...

Hello everyone and welcome to the Renewable Energy Team July blog. July has been a busy month for the CO2Sense renewable energy team. Towards the end of July I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the Green Business Support Organisation (GBSO...

Tony Sharkey : Hi, hope you may be able to help. We are currently considering options for wind power development at our sites in North Yorkshire. Does anyone in the network have any contacts /know of any organisations that we may be able to work with...

Hello, Im Vicky Wren the Project Manager for the Farm Resource Efficiency Programme (FREP). FREP is a small capital grants programme aimed at helping farmers to save money through being more resource efficient. The types of things we currently fund include...

Welcome to the Renewable Energy Network and my very first blog. I'm Jemma Benson, and I lead the Renewable Energy Programme here at CO2Sense and I'll be using this space to keep you up to date on the work we're doing and highlight exciting...