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Zero Chippenham meeting Thursday 8th May 7-30pm

Zero Chippenham meeting – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm – Good Energy Offices

Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm, at the Good Energy Offices, Chippenham. Good Energy have kindly allowed us to use their fabulous offices for our meeting. Entry will be at the Monkton Hill Council offices Entrance, Monkton Park. Agenda to follow… Zero Chippenham is a voluntary […]

Home Energy Workshop National Self Build and Renovation centre Sat 5th April 2025

Home Energy Eco Workshop Saturday 5th April 2025 NSBRC Swindon

The National Self Build and Renovation Centre, Swindon, has it’s latest Home Energy Eco Workshop taking place Saturday 5th April 2025. It’s FREE to book and these are always excellent with an opportunity to meet suppliers and walk around their demonstration houses. ‘Whether your motivation is saving the environment or saving money, our programme of […]

Free Sustainable Business Event 4th March 25

Free Sustainable Business and Networking opportunity in Chippenham Thursday 4th March

Chippenham Town Council in Partnership with Good Energy are running a FREE Sustainable business and networking opportunity on Thursday 4th March. As part of their Climate Strategy, Chippenham Town Council wants to help our local businesses to become more sustainable. The evening event is in partnership with Good Energy and Severn Wye agency to share […]

To Good To Go

Too Good To Go – Chippenham – Save Money save Food Waste

If you’ve never used the Too Good To Go App  in Chippenham before – what are you waiting for? We first started using the Too Good to Go app six months ago. It’s easy to use, download the app to your phone and allow it to use your current location. You will immediately see Food bag […]

Zero Chippenham meeting Thursday 13th February 7-30pm

Zero Chippenham Meeting 7-30pm Thursday 13th February Monkton Hill Good Energy Offices

Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 13th February 2025, 7-30pm, at the Good Energy Offices, Chippenham. Our first in person meeting for 2025! Good Energy have kindly allowed us to use their fabulous offices for our meeting. Entry will be at the Monkton Hill Council offices Entrance, Monkton Park. We’ll […]

Rowden Hill PM2.5 December

Air Quality in Chippenham December 2024

In this post we take a quick analysis of Air Quality across Chippenham in the December 2024 to early January 2025 time period. Specifically we look at small particulate pollution PM2.5 in the four monitoring locations across Chippenham. What are the standards? The Air Quality standards 2010 state that an annual average for PM2.5 shouldn’t […]

How much is my Octopus Heat pump costing to run?

How much does it cost to run a heat pump vs gas?

Background In October 2024 we finally replaced our Worcester Greenstar combi boiler with an Octopus Heatpump installation of a Daikin Altherma 3 monoblock Airsourced Heat-pump and 180 litre hot water tank. So two months on how well does it work? Is it keeping the house warm? Is it costing more or less money to run? […]

Air Source Heat Pump Noise Planning

The Journey to Air Source Heat Pump – Navigating Wiltshire Planning – Calne

In this case study Kev Matthews tells us how he’s navigated the Wiltshire Planning system on his journey to install an Air Source Heat Pump in his Calne home… …With the Boiler Upgrade Scheme from the UK government contributing £7500 (England and Wales) towards the cost of installation, it’s never been a been a better […]