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houses which have still single glazed windows with double glazed ones. 3.3.4 Roof insulation Among the surveyed households, 23 houses (68%) have roof insulation, and 10 houses (30%) have none. In 1 (3%) [...] 17 of the 33 households (52%) have separate systems for each purpose; and 16 households (48%) have the same system for both purposes. From these 16 households, 14 have a central heating system for the [...] the whole household and only 2 have single-room heater systems. 7 of the households which have the same system for space and water heating, have installed them in the last 10 years, 6 between 1995 and 1985
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respondents who have “very high” level of information in Unst, which could be due to the presence of the PEC hydrogen project in Unst. In Yell slightly more people in the household sector have “high” level [...] of the beneficiaries like the Unst Heritage Center have been able to cut down their electricity costs by half24. Though the wind to heat projects have been highly instrumental in reducing emissions caused [...] 6.5. CONCLUSION In contrast to the big wind farms which have been a subject of much public discussion, the decentralized wind to heat systems have been pretty well accepted by communities in Shetland. With
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statement, that tell us on one hand how many resources do we have and on the other hand how many of these resources do we use. That means on one hand we have our capital which is our ecological assets and on the [...] considered under this scenario. The LPG cars have proven to be economically viable if they travel at least 35,000 km. SESAM 2008 survey has shown that 40 cars in Sleat have a yearly total distance travel of 35 [...] and the opportunity given to explore the culture of this region. Without them this study would not have been completed. Our sincere heartfelt gratitude is extended to all who made our stay in Sleat a memorable
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source of energy. Regarding awareness and promotional campaign, the survey results have shown that around 33% of respondents have neither knowledge nor interest on GHGs and carbon neutral village issues. Raising [...] SESAM, IC 2009 Based on the survey results (figure 7), 76% of respondents’ houses have roof insulation and 51% of them have wall insulation. The average thicknesses are 5.6 and 3.7 inches for roof and wall [...] Source: SESAM, IC 2009 More than 66% of respondents have moderate or higher level of knowledge on impact of climate change. Similarly, more than 60% have moderate, high or very high knowledge on GHG emission
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Improvements in drought proofing have been undertaken in 2 houses, while 3 of the houses have installed double glazing in windows and doors. Six houses under HHP property have not carried out any renovations [...] households in Horve, Castlebay have a wet bound heating system. This is an advantage in terms of transferring to a District heating system. However, those who do not have a water bound heating system will [...] complete responses, but they have been extrapolated to the total number of households where necessary. 3.2 General profile of dwellings On average houses in Vatersay have three bedrooms. The average heated
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This fact makes it indispensable to have a car in those islands. In Eday all households in the sample have at least one vehicle. In Rousay 10% of the households do not have a vehicle. In this island the highest [...] Kirkwall have no vehicle. Most of the households in all three locations have only one vehicle per household. (Annex II, Number of vehicles per households) In Rousay fewer households than in Eday have only [...] private car. People living in Eday have the advantage to arrive directly in Kirkwall. Primary data on monthly expenditure of each household for using public buses have been gathered through questionnaires
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s at the local school We have a recycling bin at hotel We take our used textiles to the collection point We have visited Clean Sleat Website's Recycling Message Board We have posted and exchanged used [...] study revealed that 77% (302) of the households in Sleat have installed energy saving lamps. Further it shows that 56% (168) of the households have benefitted from the Clean Sleat Project by receiving free [...] difficult to understand (2 respondents) The effect it would have on the computer was not clear from the instruction (1 respondent) The respondent did not have many electrical equipments (1 respondent) The respondents
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heartfelt gratitude to all individuals and organizations that have assisted us throughout this assessment study. This study could not have been successfully done without the support from the Jura Development [...] network. Finally a summary of the technical and economical findings of the various energy components have showed that community-owned projects can be developed for wind, hydro, biogas and waste-heat recovery [...] alternative. Indeed, small hydro power plants, one of which is still running with an output of 29 kW, have been used for decades on the island. Biomass in the form of wood and peat are also widely used for
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are considered as constants, hence they do not have an impact on the power output. The pipe flows, net head, efficiency of both turbine and generator have an impact on power generated. These were considered [...] Century Ltd. - GEC, 2013) As shown in the above table Lead Acid batteries have the lowest cost per kW but Flow batteries have the lowest cost per cycle, making the latter ones a good option to be considered [...] demand in Knoydart, the batteries would not have an extensive use; thus, the parameter to take into account in this case is the annual cost. These calculations have been done considering 10 years of lifetime
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structures with the potential to have significant landscape and visual impacts. Therefore visual impacts of a wind project have to be considered before implementation and have to be designed to minimize impacts [...] results cannot be guaranteed. The University of Flensburg as well as the authors of the present document have no legal responsibility in case of any errors, omissions or misleading statements. Therefore, we recommend [...] derived by the community upon exploitation. In order to achieve the objective three possibilities have been explored: Options for complement- ing the electricity generation of the hydropower scheme in