CAT is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing.
Our facilities
Our 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
We also have two reed bed systems, our own off-mains water supply, and extensive organic gardens.
Based in beautiful mid Wales, CAT is open to the public and offers education from school groups up to Masters level courses. We also offer short courses and have opportunities for long term or local volunteers.
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We run various volunteer programmes including long term volunteering and local volunteering often in our organic gardens, in our water & natural resources department, with our media and marketing teams and working with our gr...
