Could Totnes be the first town in Britain to go fully Solar PV?
Imagine every house in Totnes having a solar electricity system on the roof, supplying up to 50% of our electricity. One street in Totnes is not just imagining it, they’ve already begun a campaign to petition the government, and they want everyone to join in…… A group of neighbours from Copland Meadows formed the first Transition Together group, meeting once a fortnight to look at ways in which they could save energy and reduce their carbon footprint. After seeing the film ‘The Age of Stupid’, (where there is a scene showing neighbours blocking the planning permission for a wind farm) they decided solar PV was the most acceptable form of clean electricity, and decided to start a local petition about it (see picture below). ‘Solar photovoltaic electricity would have a massive impact on our carbon emissions as well as making a significant contribution to our energy needs, and it would create thousands of new jobs in manufacture and installation’. But how would we pay for it? The Copland
