CAT Centre For Alternative Technology

The Centre For Alternative Technology (CAT) is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. CAT covers all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing.

The CAT site is a unique and valuable practical demonstration centre, a living laboratory with an enormous range of live examples of sustainable solutions.

CAT has the largest range of installed renewable systems anywhere. These include:

• Photovoltaics
• Solar thermal
• A micro-grid
• Off-grid and grid-connected systems
• Biomass combined heat and power (CHP)
• Hydro
• Air source heat pumps
• A community heat main
• A range of small to medium wind turbines

The CAT site also has two reed bed systems, its own off-mains water supply, and extensive organic gardens.