South Dartmoor Community Energy

19/10/2026

🎧 Heat pumps explained: A great listen if you’re unsure how they work or whether they’re right for your home.

Dermot Bannon joined Oliver Callan on RTÉ Radio 1 for an excellent discussion on all things heat pumps, answering common questions, busting myths and clearing up some of the misconceptions surrounding the technology.

Whether you’re building, renovating or simply exploring your heating options, this is well worth 20 minutes of your time.

🎧 Listen here:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/f7d71ffb-a78f-4966-89ab-b4e400c68a94/

19/10/2026

📌THIS Friday 23rd October 10am-12noon

Advice on: making your home energy efficient, lowering bills, grants, problems with energy companies, meters, damp and condensation, insulation funding, broken appliances, boiler repairs.

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South Dartmoor Community Energy

09/10/2026

🏡☀️ Make your home warmer and cut your energy bills, with simple, affordable tips!

Join the us, Totnes Climate Hub, Chapel Place Ivybridge and South Dartmoor Community Energy for a friendly, hands-on workshop on draft-proofing, radiator foil and easy everyday savings. It's jargon-free, with a resource list to take home.

📍 Totnes: Tue 3rd Nov, 10:30am–12:30pm, Climate Hub, Totnes: https://buytickets.at/shareshed/2465042
📍 Ivybridge: Tue 10th Nov, 10:30am–12:30pm, Chapel Place Community Centre, Ivybridge: https://buytickets.at/shareshed/2465050

🎟️ £10 | £5 low-income | £15 generous supporter

⚡ Only 15 places, so book early!

16/09/2026

⚡ Energy bills to rise by more than 20% in January.

There’s no getting away from it – this is going to be a challenging winter for a lot of households.

But it may be worth checking now whether you’re on the best tariff for you, rather than waiting until prices rise.

Our friendly Home Energy Advisors can look at your current tariff with you and help work out whether you could be better off switching to a different deal.

Our advice is free and completely impartial – and now is a good time to get in touch, before our busy winter period kicks in.

📩 Send us a message if you’d like us to take a look.

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14/09/2026

Are you worried about the rapid price rises in LPG and oil? Need to top up but struggling to make ends meet? We're here to help, get in touch with our team on 0800 112 3044 or e mail [email protected] for free and impartial advice and support. We can also check if you're eligible for a grant towards heating your home this Winter.

24/07/2026

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Our systems are giving us a code red for humanity. But the government is not acting like this is an emergency. It is time to stop pretending this will all work out all right if we simply switch to heat pumps (let alone air conditioning) and put up shutters (important as these are), and to start telling it like it is.

We need adaptation to be taken seriously, and it must be on an equal footing with decarbonisation. Both are urgent and vital; we must be ready for climate impacts while rapidly reducing our emissions to prevent even more global heating taking us into never-experienced-before territory.

We need adaptation and decarbonisation throughly to overlap: which in the form of Strategic Adaptation, they do.

New article on substack from myself and Rupert Read of Climate Majority Project on the record-breaking heatwaves, the visible signs of climate breakdown in the UK, and what we (and our new PM Burnham) must now do together to face and act on our new reality.

21/07/2026

Long range weather forecasts are warning about another, stronger heat wave at the start of August. We have prepared some emergency kit to help local households get through heat waves more comfortably.
If you know an elderly or vulnerable local resident, or family with young children, we offer a free home visit to teach them how to keep cooler in heat waves and provide items such as temporary window shades. Contact us on 0800 112 3044 or e mail [email protected] to book.

24/06/2026

Remember you can contact us for advice on how to stay cool in the heat too .....

24/06/2026

This heat wave has kept us busy coming up with cheap but effective solutions for keeping cool at home. The winner so far is using radiator foils as makeshift window covers to reflect the sun and keep the interior cool. These South facing windows are cool to the touch and the indoor temperature is currently 8 degrees cooler than outside.
We should have these ready to roll out in the community in time for the next heatwave (we’re expecting a few this Summer 🥵) but you can make your own very cheaply in the mean-time.
We will be out in the community all summer offering bespoke advice and practical solutions to keeping cool in a changing climate.

22/06/2026

A gentle reminder for the incoming heat wave - copy our Southern European neighbours. Windows and blinds/ curtains closed in the day (you can improvise with using tin foil or other black out fabrics for Southerly facing windows to add extra protection from the heat), then open the windows in the evening and overnight to allow the cooler air in. You can keep your house comfortably cooler than outside using this technique - add fans to circulate air.