Скачать или смотреть Shine a Light? - Dan McCallum - Awel Aman Tawe - Community Energy Local Heroes

Awel Aman Tawe is a community energy project working to make a difference to the lives of people at the top of the Swansea and Amman Valleys. It aims to bring clean electricity, jobs and regeneration to the villages near the Mynydd y Gwrhyd. It has planning permission to build a two-turbine community wind farm high up on the Gwrhyd, a £6million asset that will bring low carbon energy and construction contracts to the area, together with an annual income stream from the sale of electricity of some £200,000 that will help to fund local projects.

Launched at the Centre For Alternative Energy in Machynlleth a series of short community-based films aiming to highlight the challenges groups face in Wales to develop a local renewable energy supply. Their content supports the idea of democratising our energy, bringing ownership and profit back into communities whilst reducing climate change. They express the difficulties of community energy development in the UK compared to for example, Germany. These vibrant films also support the Community Energy Wales network.

The films are a means to broadcast and share the community energy message and to encourage the public and politicians to learn more. Funded by the Big Lottery 'Awards for All' programme and supported also by Renew Wales . Filmed by park6productions. (who support the charity with reduced costs)

We believe such local schemes are an answer to climate change**(see notes below) and the chronic fuel poverty now encountered in Wales. (Latest figures from the Welsh government indicate 30% of the Welsh population experiences fuel poverty - defined as spending over 10% of income on fuel).