Renewable electricity firm Good Energy has become the official sponsor of a new national housing festival aimed at highlighting how to live more sustainably.
The Festival of Sustainable Homes, which takes place in Swindon on Friday and Saturday 17-18 May, is expected to attract thousands of people eager to get the latest advice on improving both the energy efficiency and comfort levels of properties.
Organisers the National Self Build & Renovation Centre (NSBRC) said the festival would avoid ‘greenwash’ by offering genuine inspiration for anyone interested in creating well-designed healthy homes.
It will include more than 200 exhibitors offering advice and information on how to make homes more sustainable, together with inspiring talks and educational tours.
It will also feature a nature zone shining a spotlight on charities and other organisations working to protect the environment.
Chippenham-headquartered Good Energy, which has been at the forefront of clean energy for a quarter of a century, described the festival as being perfect for anyone wanting to enjoy a greener life.
Good Energy head of marketing Laura Wildish said: “People are increasingly keen to play their part in tackling the climate crisis, and there’s no better place to start than how we power and heat our own homes.
The NSBRC, just off junction 16 of the M4 at Lydiard Fields, is the UK’s only permanent visitor centre designed specifically to meet the needs of individual self-builders, renovators and home improvers.
NSBRC managing director Harvey Fremlin said: “With a 25-year legacy as renewable pioneers, based down the road from us in Chippenham, Good Energy are the perfect partners for the festival.
“We are excited to work with the team to help thousands of people to learn more about creating better, sustainable homes.”
Good Energy has a mission is to power a cleaner, greener world and make it simple to generate, share, store, use and travel by clean power.
Its ambition is to support 1m homes and businesses to cut carbon from their energy and transport used by 2025.
The firm has long-term power purchase agreements with a community of more than 2,000 independent UK generators, is the UK’s largest voluntary administrator of the Feed-in-Tariff scheme and offers solar and heat pump installations.
It has completed a number of takeovers in recent years to broaden its offering away from just power generation and supply.
These include Wessex EcoEnergy, an established solar installation business, and JPS Renewable Energy, a specialist solar and storage installation and distribution business, and its wholly owned subsidiary Trust Solar Wholesale, a standalone distribution and procurement business.
Pictured: Harvey Fremlin and Laura Wildish (centre) with colleagues at the National Self Build and Renovation Centre in Swindon. Photo courtesy of NSBRC
