How to Earn Money From Your Home: Energy Generation

With technology such as solar panels and mini wind turbines making it increasingly easy for homeowners to generate their own energy, there’s the tantalising possibility of selling any excess energy back to electricity suppliers – thereby cutting your own bills and perhaps even making a tidy profit.

Solar panels

Of course, generating electricity from renewable resources isn’t just good for your wallet: it also reduces pollution and helps to lower your carbon footprint. If you’re considering taking a hands-on approach to energy generation, here’s a brief guide to help you get started.

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Final Week of Competition to Win £500 of Travel Vouchers

We’ve already received hundreds of great entries on the Countrywide Close-ups competition but there’s still time to enter.

If you fancy yourself a British trivia wiz, try your hand at identifying ten ultra zoomed-in images of famous landmarks from across England. You have until Saturday, May 25th to take part in the Countrywide Close-ups competition.

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Score well on the quiz and you could win the prize of £500 of travel vouchers. With summer coming up, what better time is there to try your luck at winning our fun and challenging competition? Win and you could use the prize vouchers to go on a foreign holiday, or better yet – see some of the wonderful sights featured in the competition.

ENTER THE COMPETITION HERE

Good luck!

 

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Scottish Ferryman Roger Beercraft on Life at Sea…

… and how he battens down the hatches with Everest aluminium doors

The Western Ferries fleet of ships journeys across the Scottish Clyde of Firth seas 365 days of the year. The impressive fleet of four ferries carries passengers, cars and crew from Hunter’s Quay to McInroy’s Point over 30,000 times each year.

On some days the weather can be punishing and the waves choppy; so when voyaging across the Scottish seas from the early morning to dusk every day, the Sound of Shuna ferry utilises the tough and durable Everest aluminium doors to keep her passengers safe and warm.

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We caught up with the Sound of Shuna’s Technical Manager Roger Beercroft to ask him about life at sea.

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