National Campaigns

Micropower - an introduction

A simple guide to micro-renewables

Small scale renewable energy has huge potential to power Scotland’s houses, public buildings and businesses. 

Whether it’s solar hot water heaters on an individual household’s roof or a community combined heat and power plant giving renewable heat and electricity to a whole neighbourhood, micropower can and must play its part in providing our future energy needs. 

Micropower is showing itself to have what it takes to make that all-important link between us ordinary folk, the energy that we have for so long taken for granted and the biggest ever environmental threat: climate change. 

Friends of the Earth Scotland is calling for all of Scotland's homes to become mini power stations. We're campaigning for every home in Scotland to gets at least a part of its heating, lighting and power from small-scale renewable energy.

We're campaigning for:

• tighter building regulations to ensure that buildings waste less energy, 
• simpler planning rules to make installation of micropower easier,
• better grant funding to bring the cost down,
• developers to install micropower as standard in all new homes and 
• the Scottish Executive to set ambitious targets for small-scale renewable energy generation across Scotland.

A key part of the revolution of micropower lies in its potential to stop people feeling powerless in the face of the enormous, global issues of energy security, price rises and climate change.  

Join us in a small-scale revolution that could completely change our relationship with energy and give every one of us the power to really make a difference.

Find out more about micropower

• read our simple guide to micropower technologies
• read our detailed guide to micropower technologies
• other useful resources and links

Friends of the Earth Scotland's work on micropower is
supported by an Esmee Fairbairn Foundation grant.

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