The Iona Heat Network has been unveiled as the winner of the Firstport Social Innovation Challenge 2022 for its bid to help island residents cut their reliance on fossil fuels and address fuel poverty – which disproportionately affects the area. To mitigate the pressures on the island’s energy supply in an environmentally friendly way, the project will extract …
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Keen readers of The Times may have spotted this comment piece about our proposed Heat Network earlier this month. Full text below if you missed it. Iona’s heat plans light the way for a greener nation Malcolm Robertson Thursday August 05 2021, 12.01am, The Times Iona holds a unique place in Scottish hearts. …
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Very happy to confirm that we are one of 15 charities from across the UK to be awarded funding from the Energy Redress Scheme. The Scheme (officially named ‘The Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Fund’) collects voluntary payments from energy companies to redress harm caused to energy consumers. It is administered by Energy Saving Trust, and …
Our neighbours up at the Iona Community invited us to attend a fundraising event for the Iona Abbey Capital Appeal in Glasgow last month. We met a lot of the people involved in making that project happen, visited with members of the Iona Community, saw some of our fellow Iona inhabitants all dressed up (not …
With enormous thanks to NTS, Andrew Prentice and all immediate neighbours to the Columba field, a test bore drill was completed in August. The drilling conditions were smooth and rapid, reaching the required depth within a day. The conductivity test returned a very good result of 2.9 W/mK, Watts per metre Kelvin. This figure confirms …
The installation of our district heat network will involve drilling a number of boreholes, and laying pipes to properties. As Iona is a culturally and historically significant location, there is quite high likelihood of coming across as yet undiscovered cultural heritage assets during the digs. In order to identify the most feasible locations for our …