Higher Education, Schools and Energy Communities

WORKSHOP ON HIGHER EDUCATION SCHOOLS AND ENERGY COMMUNITIES

30TH APRIL 2025 12.00 – 14.00HRS

MEETING URL - https://shorturl.at/QCQ49

Come and join as workshop designed to show you how to set up an energy community in your school, your University.

Learn about the first school in Spain that has set up an energy community and is about to install renewable energy, both solar and air source heat pumps.

Learn about the first University in Denmark that has set up an energy community, funded, installed and now operates solar energy for Aarhus University and links it to the AURORA Energy Tracker app, helping students and staff to lower their own personal carbon footprints and to see the energy being generated.

Learn about the first school that is about to receive approval for an energy community to install solar energy in the UK and set a national precedent.

These schemes avoid any capital cost to the education budget, raise funds through share issues, lower energy costs for the site and pay a return on investment and still leave funds left for the next phase of the scheme.

What is not to like about diverting fossil fuel costs back into your community, cutting carbon emissions, lowering energy costs and leading the charge towards renewable energy.

The workshop is an open event and full details on the programme can be found at:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GhBGE0ye5WzW8-K3WFBwRm-k1HSKi6RX03BmmicADPM/edit?usp=sharing

The event is supported by the EU policy departments, DG Energy; DG Education and DG Clima. Log in early to the event to avoid disappointment as spaces are limited to 300. Make sure leading members of your educational institution come and find out how they can be leaders in the energy transition in your community.

Spread the word through your networks about this event and imagine if every school and every University in Europe set up its own energy community what the impact would be.

Martin Brocklehurst 

Project AURORA – A citizen science project tackling climate change

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