Renewable energy explained

Renewable Energy is a term used to describe energy that comes from renewable sources. It is sometimes referred to as 'Green Energy' or 'Sustainable Energy'.

There are all sorts of ways in which you can use renewable energy and experience a wide range of benefits from it.

To give householders and community groups an overview of renewable energy technologies we have produced a series fact sheets. These explain how the technologies work, provide information on installation costs, payback times and direct readers to other useful sources of information. To download a fact sheet click on one of the options below:

• Introduction to renewable energy
• Buying green electricity
• Solar water heating
• Solar PV
• Ground source heat pumps
• Small scale wind
• Small scale hydro
• Biomass

Click here for a more comprehensive overview of these technologies, how they work and how you can benefit from them.

You can also see case studies on how these technologies have been installed on a domestic scale.