Useful Links

The links on this page are provided to offer you further relevant information, which you may wish to explore.

Grow Your Own Energy is not responsible for the content of external websites. The inclusion of a link to a third party website from Grow Your Own Energy's websites should not be understood as an endorsement. 

Hestia Solar: www.hestiasolar.co.uk
Hestia is an MCS Approved installer of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the West Midlands.

Energy Saving Trust: www.est.org.uk
Information on all aspects of energy efficiency in the home

REAL Assurance Scheme:www.realassurance.org.uk
Set up by the Renewable Energy Association, the REAL Assurance Scheme aims to guarantee a high quality experience for consumers wishing to buy or lease small generation units for their home, for a community building or for a small business

Sutherlands tables: www.sutherlandtables.co.uk
Provides twice yearly statistics on different domestic fuels and the costs of using these fuels under similar conditions

Practical Action - Technology challenging poverty http://practicalaction.org Charity supported financially by Grow Your Own Energy's parent company, Hestia Managed Services - our climate is changing and it's the world's poorest people who are hardest hit. Practical Action is working with people to help them adapt to the effects of climate change, and calling for urgent UK and international policy to tackle climate change

Trade Associations and Centres

Association for the Conservation of Energy (UKACE): www.ukace.org/research/fuelprophet/fuelpricescenarios.htm
'Fuel Prophet’ analysis tool

Micropower Council: www.micropower.co.uk
Body that represents the whole microgeneration sector and acts as the industry’s main contact point for government, opinion formers, the press, and the public. Membership includes all the large trade associations and a number of leading companies with interests in microgeneration

Renewable Energy Association: www.r-p-a.org.uk
Represents British renewable energy producers and promotes the use of sustainable energy in the UK


Solar Trade Association: www.greenenergy.org.uk 
Serves as a focal point for organisations with business interests in the Solar Energy industry

British Wind Energy Association: www.bwea.com
Trade and professional body for the UK wind and marine renewables industries

Heat Pump Association: www.feta.co.uk/hpa
The UK's leading authority on the use and benefits of heat pump technology

Combined Heat and Power Association: www.chpa.co.uk
Works to promote the wider use of combined heat and power and community heating

Biomass Energy Centre: www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk
A Government developed 'one stop shop' able to provide advice to anyone with an interest in biomass derived fuels and associated conversion technologies