CLA Renewable Energy Handbooks

CLA59 – Solar energy: a guide for land managers
This handbook looks at the background to solar power, considers the opportunities for landowners and rural businesses and includes an outline of the planning and engineering constraints that apply.

CLA55 - Hydropower as an enterprise
Hydropower is of real interest to riparian owners and the rural economy as it not only uses a natural resource to deliver energy, and is supported by Government regulation in the form of the Feed-in Tariff (payable from April 2010) and the Renewables Obligation, but it also offers the opportunity for a profitable contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases.

CLA50 – Wind farms and land-based turbines as an enterprise
This handbook on wind covers the costs and benefits of wind development from the landowner’s point of view. It is very much a warts-and-all handbook, detailing the factors that drive investment, and the costs and controversy that it can engender.

CLA49 - Biogas: anaerobic digestion of manures, crops and wastes as an enterprise
This handbook provides an introduction to the exciting opportunities for members in the area of anaerobic digestion.

CLA48 - Biomass: green energy from forestry and agriculture as an enterprise
This handbook covers the use of biomass for both heat and electricity generation, as well as energy crop production.

Reader comments
"Thank you for sending me a copy of the Wind handbook. It is a very comprehensive publication, covers just about everything and is well presented. Congratulations!"
"The Biogas handbook represents the condensed version of biogas technology that I envisaged - clear, concise and illustrative."
"The handbook is a very useful guide for those developing their farm-based biogas projects"

Save money if you are investing in renewables
If you are bringing in renewable energy plants and machinery from outside Britain, you may be losing as much as five percent because of the bank exchange rate.
You may be able to save money through using the CLA's Foreign Exchange Services. If you fix the exchange rate on a large purchase like a wind turbine you may also be able to save thousands of pounds. Read more here.

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