Shannon Town Sustainable Energy Community (SEC)

  A simple way to increase your comfort level on cold nights is to use heavy curtains :) I have found a 5 C difference either side of curtains! A clothes peg can help close tricky curtains and a board behind a radiator can keep the heat the right side of them :) And remember good quality curtains at bargain prices can be got in most charity shops! Like Second Chance Animal Rescue - SCAR in the Shannon Town Centre :) @SEAI @ SEAI Sustainable Energy Communities @ Shannon Community Partnership

     Wow! I didn't know so much energy use data was public! https://psmr.seai.ie/Reports/PublicAnnualReportForPublic... Say for St. Patrick's Comprehensive School in 2021 was 270MWh or roughly 1000 units per day (remember school closed quite a bit). Interesting data, most residential homes would use 10 units a day (4MWh per annum) and Shannon Airport (40,000 units per day / 13,000MWh per annum) https://www.seai.ie/.../seai.../key-statistics/residential/

T he next step for us will be to work towards a masterplan of how to engage with the people of Shannon Town to be more energy efficient. Our neighbours in Cratloe just published their 43 page plan at: https://sustainablecratloe.ie/ What I think would be brilliant is if ESB Networks would provide SECs occasional actual supply/generation data from their network. They already share capacity data: https://www.esbnetworks.ie/.../availability-capacity-map

Only two of our four members could make it for today's meeting in the library but it was a very useful session and we decided the following: 1) We decided on a mission statement of "To encourage efficient use of energy in Shannon Town. To be achieved through engagement, education and awareness raising among individuals, organisations and companies in Shannon" 2) We also decided to agree on actions we can take each month and report back in our next meeting. This month's action is for me to promote the use of the Home Energy Saving Kit. This Codema kit is free to borrow from the library: https://www.codema.ie/think-energy-home-hub/the-home-energy-saving-kit/