Renew started up in 1979 as the bimonthly renewable energy newsletter of NATTA, the OU-based Network for Alternative Technology & Technology Assessment which I had set up in 1976. It was backed by the OU Alternative Technology Group (ATG), which Godfrey Boyle had then just set up, and which, in 1986, became the Energy and Environment Research Unit (EERU), still under his leadership. I was a member of both. In this extended post I look back at what happened next. EERU prospered, producing some innovative courses and info packs and carrying out pioneering research. Indeed Godfrey Bevan, at one stage the civil servant head of the government’s renewable energy team, commented ‘I think the country owes a great debt to the ATG/EERU as pioneers in the field, which it will never even know about.’ Renew also thrived, with up 500 NATTA subscribers, until it went electronic (and free), as Renew on line, in 2008. I have continued with it independently, after I retired from full time work
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