Earth Notes: Kingston's Efficient Homes Show BITESIZE (2025-09)
Updated 2025-09-22.Event: Kingston's Efficient Homes Show 2025 BITESIZE
Kingston's Efficient Homes Show BITESIZE - building a greener future, together!
- InStock
- FREE (Eventbrite ticket) valid at/until:
- Featuring: Various exhibitors and speakers
- Free
- Date:
- Location: The Guildhall
- High Street, KT1 1EU
- Kingston-upon-Thames
- UK
- Organiser: Kingston Council
Description
From the council: ...
Following the success of Kingston's third Efficient Homes Show earlier in the year, we are hosting a bitesize version at the Guildhall in Kingston Town.
It's free to attend!
It is aimed at:
- Homeowners, renters, landlords, business owners, estate agents and lettings agencies
- People looking for funding to help improve the energy efficiency of their home
- People looking to save on their energy bills
- People looking for training, employment support and jobs in the retrofit and other green economy industries
- People looking to help protect the environment.
Key times for the day:
- 11:30 AM: Doors open
- 11:30 - 11:35 AM: Opening remarks by Cllr Ian Manders, Portfolio Holder for Climate Action, Biodiversity and Planning Policy
- 11:35 - 12:15 PM: A Short Talk about my Low-Carbon Home by Michael de Podesta, the author of 'Protons for Breakfast'
- 12:30 - 03:00 PM: Short Talks led by Transition Town Kingston (TTK) Energy Group (EG). Covering solar energy, batteries at home, heat-waves, ventilation and insulation coordinated by Damon Hart-Davis, Chair, Transition Town Kingston
- 03:25 PM: Closing remarks
Short Talks
KEF (Kingston Environment Forum) has arranged for TTKEG (Transition Town Kingston Energy Group) and some of the show exhibitors to give short beginner-level talks with Q&A, such as experiences of new solar PV and heat pump systems, to .
| Start Time | Speaker | Topic and links | Audio / Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHD | (lightning talk) Home Batteries [PDF] [ODP] | audio | |
| LH | Heat pumps, Battery storage and Solar PV: A case study and conversation for homeowners [PDF] | ||
| AF | Our Solar PV System 'One Year On' [PDF] | audio | |
| RN | (lightning talk) What Would EFA Do for Me? [PDF] | ||
| PD | (lightning talk) Retrofitting Existing Housing: Getting it Right [PDF] | ||
| LL | (lightning talk) Net Zero Future Homes and Software Tools [PDF] | ||
| NP | (lightning talk) Vacuum Glazing [PDF] | ||
| PJM | Effectiveness of Various Energy Efficiency Measures in a Typical Kingston Home [PDF] | ||
| PM | Ventilation, Air Tightness and Insulation [PDF] | audio | |
| MH | Why Do Solar At Home? [PDF] | audio |
Speakers key: AF Alan Ferdman, DHD Damon Hart-Davis, LH Lucy Hayden (Creating Shelter), LL Lawrence Liao (Oakhouse Software), MH Mark Handley, NP Neil Parsons (Surbiton Windows), PD Paul Dawson (Lanka Property Services), PJM Peter Mason, PM Patrick Manwell, RN Rupert Nelson (EFA).
One-to-Ones
KEF/TTKEG will also be providing one-to-one support chats for the public. For those who do not yet have a clue where to start, and beyond!