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Our first Hot Topic Workshop was held in West Linton’s Village Centre, on 17th September 2024.

Sustainable West Linton and District’s Community Heat Team joined up with Home Energy Scotland, a free and impartial service to help households save energy and reduce their home carbon footprint.

Attendees heard from HES Technical Officer Dylan Rendall who spoke about solar panels, energy batteries, Home Energy Scotland’s home visit service, and the other tools and support available to help make homes greener and cheaper to run. 

Although there is limited funding available for solar and battery, Home Energy Scotland provided information about Scotland Government funding for a range of other home energy improvements. 

Dylan’s presentation was followed by local resident Adam Clarkson who gave us a personal case study, sharing his greener home journey, with the installation of solar panels and energy batteries.

For people who were unable to attend we are attaching slides from the evening presentations, plus notes from the Q&A

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Over the last three years of carrying out free Heat Surveys in and around West Linton we’ve come across many owners of older properties who would like to improve the energy efficiency of their home - around a third of the houses in our community are pre-1919.

However, insulating an older property can be complex and challenging, and it can be hard to know where to start.

The purpose of this free workshop was to hear from the Marc Brammer and Dim Peev, energy efficiency experts at Changeworks (Scotland’s leading environmental charity), about the best practice approaches and techniques for retrofitting insulation into older properties, and how Changeworks can support and help householders through this process.