It’s been a beautiful sunny month in Chippenham and a great month for solar generation. In this post and video our solar admin Matthew takes a look at the different strategies he uses to make the best of that FREE solar electricity and minimise household energy bills. Introduction I first installed solar on our house […]
Category Archives: Latest News
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May
May
Join us Saturday 17th May 2025 in Monkton Park for the FREE Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Country Comes to Town day. We’ll have a stand along side friends at Cycle Chippenham and Zero North Wiltshire. Come and talk to us, find out about our projects, tie a leaf on our Chippenham Imagination Tree, and find out […]
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May
May
Our Air Quality readings for April 2025 are now in for Langley Road, Rowden Hill, and Marshfield Road. Our Wood Lane sensor is temporarily out of action. Of particular interest is the Langley Road sensor which is adjacent to the Langley Park Housing development. This development has caused considerable concern to nearby residents due to […]
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Apr
Apr
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 1. Welcome/ Apologies 2. Announcements 3. Project Updates: – Community solar […]
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Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Mar
Mar
The latest results for Chippenham Air Quality February 2025 are now in… Unfortunately our Wood Lane Air Quality Monitor has been out of action due to a wifi router change, but will hopefully be back in action in a few days. Our Rowden Hill monitor has also missed a couple of weeks due to flat […]
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Feb
Feb
At our last Zero Chippenham meet-up new member and Chippenham resident Colin Smith expressed his frustration at the complexity of supermarket packaging, and the inability to recycle much of it. We asked Colin if he’d like to write a post for our Zero Waste project. Here it is… I am sure that i am not […]
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Feb
Feb
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 […]
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Feb
Feb
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 […]
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Jan
Jan
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 […]