It really does feel like the future
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:30 am
Zero-Carbon Apteco
One of Apteco’s more unusual decisions was to purchase a log cabin in Snowdonia. We use it occasionally for off-site company meetings and events (including ‘LogFest’ our annual camping weekend), but mostly as a great place for staff and their families to take a break and enjoy nature in the Snowdonia national park. Whether walking, cycling, running or chilling, it is a great place to be.
However, when we bought it, the property had an oil-fired boiler and we needed occasional deliveries of rather smelly fossil fuel. Fortunately, the property has a stream that ha cyprus mobile number a hydro-electric installation about 100 years ago before the national grid arrived. We’ve worked with Snowdonia hydro and Natural Resources Wales to get planning permission and all the environmental consents necessary to build a new hydro-electric plant. We’ve removed the oil boiler and tank and replaced it with an electric boiler (think big immersion heater!) that heats water for the existing radiators. The hydro scheme should be commissioned and connected to the grid in the next month or so and then we will be a net contributor with 100% clean green electricity generated from Snowdonia’s abundant rainfall.
I’ll use a little of that clean energy to charge my electric car. I drive a Tesla which can reach Snowdonia easily enough but needs a charge to get home. So far, I’ve helped convince both my Mum and my sister to buy electric cars;as soon as you drive one! I have no anxiety about the range of the car as there are ample charge points around the country and the motorway network. We plan to fit a charge point at our office, so if you come to visit for a training course or a meeting in an electric vehicle we will soon be able to charge you up.
There is still much to do on climate change, but I’m pleased to say Apteco is playing its part!
One of Apteco’s more unusual decisions was to purchase a log cabin in Snowdonia. We use it occasionally for off-site company meetings and events (including ‘LogFest’ our annual camping weekend), but mostly as a great place for staff and their families to take a break and enjoy nature in the Snowdonia national park. Whether walking, cycling, running or chilling, it is a great place to be.
However, when we bought it, the property had an oil-fired boiler and we needed occasional deliveries of rather smelly fossil fuel. Fortunately, the property has a stream that ha cyprus mobile number a hydro-electric installation about 100 years ago before the national grid arrived. We’ve worked with Snowdonia hydro and Natural Resources Wales to get planning permission and all the environmental consents necessary to build a new hydro-electric plant. We’ve removed the oil boiler and tank and replaced it with an electric boiler (think big immersion heater!) that heats water for the existing radiators. The hydro scheme should be commissioned and connected to the grid in the next month or so and then we will be a net contributor with 100% clean green electricity generated from Snowdonia’s abundant rainfall.
I’ll use a little of that clean energy to charge my electric car. I drive a Tesla which can reach Snowdonia easily enough but needs a charge to get home. So far, I’ve helped convince both my Mum and my sister to buy electric cars;as soon as you drive one! I have no anxiety about the range of the car as there are ample charge points around the country and the motorway network. We plan to fit a charge point at our office, so if you come to visit for a training course or a meeting in an electric vehicle we will soon be able to charge you up.
There is still much to do on climate change, but I’m pleased to say Apteco is playing its part!