Colin Jones studied on the Renewable Energy and the Built Environment programme at CAT from 2010 to 2014. This week he has been back helping to run a practical with…
Elgan Roberts has been studying on the Renewable Energy and the Built Environment course part time since 2012. He is half way through writing his thesis, which seems like a…
Toby Whiting, domestic energy assessor and new student on the MSc Renewable Energy and the Built Environment course at CAT reports on his introductory week. Looking back on the introductory…
Claire Newton studied renewable energy and the built environment at CAT as a way to develop her role in the Sustainable Energy Department at E.ON. Here she talks about what…
The web is choc-a-bloc with videos vying for your attention on a cold evening indoors. There are some great nuggets of green information and environmental news online. Here’s a selection…
Sustainable architecture holds the key to an environmentally positive future. Only by living more economically with our resources can we hope to protect our environment and climate. So what better…
The Centre for Alternative Technology hosted it’s first environmental question time earlier this month. The subject for discussion was politics. A whole host of questions were put forward by CAT’s…
I didn’t get around to writing a blog for the single Photovoltaic (PV) module that I attended. At this stage of the course it appears that ‘life’ tends to…
“We need more engineers for the growing renewable sector,” says the Centre for Alternative Technology after five years of teaching renewable energy. As the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) celebrates…
Ian Tansley is Chief Technical Officer of True Energy, a 10-year-old renewable energy company based in Tywyn. Ian was one of the founding members of Dulas, where he worked with…