About Swansea Bay
Swansea Bay is a bay on the southern coast of Wales. The River Neath, River Tawe, River Afan, River Kenfig and Clyne River flow into the bay. Swansea Bay and the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel experience a large tidal range.
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... The post on, said the issues were at sites across Wales, but specifically in the Swansea Bay health board area...
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... That led to Swansea Bay health board issuing a statement on behalf of over 70 current staff strongly rejecting his views...
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... " From his workplace, Christopher Lowe, a marine biology lecturer at Swansea University, has easy access to the Swansea Bay and Gower beaches where hopeful spotters are keen on gathering...
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... The surgery, known as deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP), is only performed in one Welsh health board - Swansea Bay - and takes skin from the stomach to create a new breast...
Trains: How can it take so long to fix a struggling railway?
... " Once this phase has left the station, TfW has promised it will be full steam ahead to the next phase of adding new stations, new lines and more services, including the Swansea Bay Metro...
Cost of living: Swansea estate cuts bills by generating energy
... " Lessons learned from the project will also inform the wider spread of renewable energy technology in thousands of homes throughout the Swansea Bay City Region, as part of the £1...
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... She and her family had just arrived at Swansea Bay when her mum heard her let out " a horrifying scream"...
NHS Wales: 'I spent four nights in A& E waiting for a bed'
... This includes Hywel Dda and Swansea Bay working closely together on a number of areas, including cataracts, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg being a regional hub for diagnostics...
Cost of living: Swansea estate cuts bills by generating energy
By Paul PigottBBC News
Access to solar panels and a Home battery has reduced energy bill worries for Nikita Harris on one of Europe's largest green retrofit projects.
" Where I used to worry going to bed, I don't have to worry now, " said Nikita, 26, whose Home in Swansea now runs partially on a battery.
Some 644 properties are being connected to a unique energy-sharing scheme, social housing provider Pobl said.
Housing Minister Julie James .
Power from linked solar panels on roofs across the Penderi estate is used to charge batteries in homes.
Nikita's battery is fitted to a wall just inside The Entrance of her terraced property.
By limiting the use of her big appliances to when The Sun is up, the mother-of-two said she had cut her electricity bills significantly.
" I used to spend £20 a week on my electric, " She Said , " now with the solar panels and battery I'm putting in £10 a week.
" By having The Battery in my Home . . I feel calmer, " She Said , explaining how sad she is for Other People faced with having to.
" It's hard watching people say they're struggling to get food or do they get electric, " She Said . " It is worrying times for everybody, but this has helped. "
With energy storage and smart Energy Management technology now installed in 200 homes, Pobl said The Estate has already started to cut the amount of power being drawn from The National grid.
BBCHousing in Wales32% of Welsh homes were built before 1919
43%in private rented accommodation are in pre-1919 homes
£0. 5bn to £1bn retrofit spending suggested per year for The Next 10 years
Source: Decarbonisation of Homes in Wales Advisory Group, July 2019The Project was funded by £3. 5m from the European Union , £1. 5m from Pobl, and a £900,000 infrastructure upgrade by Western Power .
Retrofitted homes on The Estate are expected to generate up to 60% of their own electricity, reducing bills, and cutting carbon emissions by as much as 350 tonnes per year.
" The aim is to. . Protect our customers from the peaks and troughs in the volatility in The Market that we currently see now, " said Pobl director of regeneration Solitaire Pritchard.
Despite the size of the retrofit, which Pobl described as Europe's largest, Penderi represents a tiny fraction of the 19,000 properties owned by The Social housing provider.
" We hope to learn how people live with this technology, " Ms Pritchard said, explaining how using a battery to power your Home is new for Most People .
" We're hoping that what we've learned here can be shared across the sector and obviously then applied across all homes in Wales. "
The company doing the retrofit is Renewable Energy supplier Sero, and Project Manager Anne-Marie Ratcliffe said a key part of The Work was teaching residents How To get The Most out of the technology.
" This is the biggest energy retrofit project of its kind in the UK so it's something incredibly innovative and incredibly exciting to be a part of, " She Said .
" It's incredibly important, given both the climate crisis and the energy fuel cost price crisis at The Moment , " she added. " The really innovative part. . is the sharing scheme whereby if you can't have [solar panels] on your Home you can still benefit from the installations that are happening around the community.
" Every person who's participating in this scheme will see a benefit to their energy bills and their energy usage in their homes, " she added.
In The Coming months, She Said , any excess power produced at Penderi will be fed back into The Network grid, generating rebates on participants' electric bills.
" This project is reducing the amount of energy being drawn off The Grid , " She Said . " That is reducing the amount of carbon that has been produced by the community as a whole and by individuals within their homes. "
She Said that if The Project helps to " prove" the technology, it will " hopefully then Roll Out to more communities. "
Lessons learned from The Project will also inform the wider spread of Renewable Energy technology in thousands of homes throughout the Swansea Bay City Region, as part of the £1. 3bn City Deal, in The Project - subject to the approval of the UK and Welsh governments.
This would see energy efficiency technology retrofitted to 7,000 homes with a further 3,300 New Build homes also benefiting as part of The Project , which is led by Neath Port Talbot council.
Source of news: bbc.com
