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Eco-Homes Café 4: DIY Retrofit, May 4th
6th April 2023
The fourth in our popular series of Eco-Homes Café events will take place on Thursday May 4th from 7pm at the Friargate Meeting House (YO1 9RL) and will be all about DIY retrofit projects. If you’re thinking of upgrading your home for better energy efficiency and comfort, at least partly as a DIY project then …
Tags: energy saving, events, insulation, local, retrofit, york
Open Meeting, April 18th
Join us for an open meeting on Tuesday April 18th to hear about our many and varied plans and projects and help shape our decisions. The open meeting will take place in the back room at the Waggon and Horses pub (YO10 3BP) from 7:30pm. Those of you on our mailing list will have heard …
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Job opportunity: work for YCE!
15th February 2023
We have been developing our York Energy Advice service over the past year and a half, and we are excited to announce that we are expanding and looking for a new Energy Advisor to staff our advice line! The new Energy Advisor would be working 3 days per week and would answer phone and email …
Tags: vacancy
Community energy – a lifeline for business?
11th December 2022
The recent skyward rise in retail energy prices has been a shock felt across the world. Here in the UK, with our notoriously energy-inefficient building stock, the impact on businesses and households has been profound. National Energy Action estimates that the number of households in fuel poverty will have increased by more than 80% in …
First school solar roof unveiled!
11th October 2022
Clifton Green Primary School has become the first school in York to get a rooftop PV array installed courtesy of Solar for Schools. It was “launched” during York Environment Week by headteacher Nicola Jones, Councillors Andrew Waller and Paula Widdowson, Carbon Reduction Officer Issy Burkitt and YCE Director Richard Lane. Nicola Jones, headteacher Clifton Green …
Tags: local, solar, solar for schools, york
Tackling the climate crisis and rising prices: join our AGM and other events
3rd September 2022
Both the climate and cost of living crises are accelerating but there are solutions that help tackle both. We’re very excited to have Dr. Jan Rosenow, renowned energy expert at the Regulatory Assistance Project, joining us in exploring the idea of using low-carbon solutions to tackle the energy price rises at our Annual General Meeting …
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Introducing: Energy Drinks
1st June 2022
On Thursday June 23rd we’re holding our first open meeting in over three years – a chance to hear what YCE has been up to and generally chat all things energy with our committee members and other invited local energy specialists. It’s the first ever Energy Drinks! We’ll be gathering in the Library Room of …
The £5k Boiler Upgrade Scheme: the policy we’ve been waiting for, or another green flop?
20th October 2021
The UK government have finally published their long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy, including the Boiler Upgrade Scheme starting in April 2022, which is a £5k grant for customers switching to an air source heat pump, or £6k for those switching to a ground source heat pump. So is this the policy that is finally going to kick-start the clean heat revolution, or will it go the way of the failed Green Homes Grant?
Tags: boiler upgrade scheme, financing, government grants, heat pump, insulation, retrofit, warmer homes york
A York Environment Week Frenzy
10th September 2021
If it isn’t already in your diaries, mark it now: York Environment Week 2021 is 18th-26th September. There is a veritable blizzard of events taking place and we aren’t stinting with our contribution! On Saturday September 25th at 1:30pm we have an event about rooftop solar for schools in York – the project we’re running …
Tags: events, insulation, local, open eco-homes, solar, solar for schools, warmer homes york, york, york environment week
Derwenthorpe: a community catching the sun
6th May 2021
When a team from the Derwenthorpe Residents Association were looking for ways to tackle the climate emergency as a community, they quite naturally thought of solar power. YCE was very pleased to be able to support them in a small way as they built a community-level PV purchase project, leaving a legacy of dozens of …
