PEOPLE POWERED ENERGY AND ACTION
ON THE STREET AND IN THE BOROUGH
WHERE: The Outset Centre, 2a Grange Road (just off Lynmouth Road) London E17 8AH
WHEN: Sat 9 November 2024, 10am – 6pm
Free food, free children’s activities, free household insulation measures
POWER STATION is a ‘show and do’ work of art and action - building a solar POWER STATION across the rooftops of Waltham Forest. Beginning on one pilot street (Lynmouth Road) POWER STATION has installed solar on 16 houses and in collaboration with Solar for Schools, on 5 local schools.
We invite you to come together to find out more from our expert collaborators and partners and get involved in the next steps of building the POWER STATION (www.power.film) on the street and in the borough.We will be both sharing films and filming on the day so that all we learn can be shared beyond the day and help others take action.
Join us to discuss how this can scale up across Waltham Forest and beyond! A series of workshops will focus on The Street, The Borough and Beyond. Covering the next phase of street solar installation, building a community-owned borough-wide solar power station, tackling heat loss through collective insulation methods, and building our own wind turbine - with a free lunch provided by Hornbeam’s Gleaner Cafe.
We will be hearing from expert partners HEET, HEAL, Waltham Forest Climate Team, Repowering London, Kristin Troemmler, Organic Lea, Hornbeam, Brighton and Hove Energy Services Co Op and more!
SCHEDULE
THE STREET
10-11AM
STREET. SOLAR
NEXT STEPS ON LYNMOUTH ROAD
So far 16 houses on Lynmouth Road have solar panels (via money raised from a rooftop crowdfunder). These were installed by Octopus in July 2023. The ambition is to get a further 50 houses solar. This workshop aims to reconnect with houses that want the solar panels but have flat rooftops and gauge new interest in a next wave of solar installations. We will share and use existing surveys and a model of the street to gather feedback and interest. The POWER STATION team and Repowering London will share possible and scalable financial models that could help make this happen (long term low interest loans, standing charges) in a live R&D session.
11.15AM-12.15PM
STREET. HEAT AND INSULATION
NEXT STEPS ON LYNMOUTH ROAD
This workshop looks at the options for collective action on replacing gas heating and keeping our homes insulated and healthy on a street by street basis.
HEAT - Together we will look at the options of a local heat network for the Grange, Lynmouth Road and surrounding streets. District heat networks are a collective solution involving more efficient of labour and resources. What is needed for that to happen here? We work with the street model again looking at how we heat our homes and how that could change.
INSULATION - For any solar and ground/air source heat it is key to tackle insulation.
Street resident Kristin Trommler will introduce her live case study on the street of full retrofit using natural materials. HEAL will follow on from their winter 2023 thermal imaging walk on the street and work with HEET to propose methods of shared resources and work on insulation and advice on basic measures – available to take home (thank you to Repowering London)
12.30-2PM - Lunchtime
STREET. FOOD AND BIODIVERSITY
NEXT STEPS ON LYNMOUTH ROAD
Lynmouth Road is part of a project called ‘Wildways’ which involved depaving at The Grange and in the front gardens of the street. Find out more from the Waltham Forest Climate team about how to get involved in Autumn depaving and planting and the interlinked issues of flood resilience and a street approach to disaster preparedness.
Organic Lea and Hornbeam are already active on the street working with The Grange on food growing (‘Grow The Grange’) and providing Gleaners Friday takeaway options. How can this expand? Hear more over a free lunch provided by Hornbeam’s Gleaners Café.
THE BOROUGH
2-4PM
A COMMUNITY OWNED BOROUGH WIDE SOLAR POWER STATION
Imagine a community owned renewable power station in which a series of solar panel arrays across large rooftops in the Borough generate energy and money that builds a community wealth fund and is owned and valued by local people. This is the vision for a Waltham Forest POWER STATION.
The POWER STATION team are working with expert partners Repowering London to make this happen and today Repowering London introduce the model and how they have made this work in other London boroughs. We hear from Newham Coop and Newham Council about how this has worked successfully for them as a mutally beneficial venture and open up to questions such as How do community shares work? What is a solar coop?
We share where we are now with this as we undertake initial feasibility studies on council rooftops, what the next steps are and how building owners and people can get involved mobilising, lobbying for this and becoming part of the team.
4-5PM EXPANDING THE POWER STATION
WIND TURBINES AND TUBE TUNNELS
Our first focus is solar but the wider vision is to then take this form of community owned and understood local energy generation further and use this event as a sandbox as part of wider research and development on district heat networks, London underground generated heat and wind turbines. What is possible? How do we take rapid steps to make it so? With Kayla Ente of Brighton and Hove Energy Services CoOp and others TBC.
5-6pm FILM AND NEXT STEPS
screening of clips from Power Station the feature documentary currently in the edit with Q&A and conversation to round up - what’s been achieved and what’s next.