Reading · English · B1 · Text 5 of 10
A Community Energy Project Learns to Share Power
Practise B1 English reading with an original text about renewable energy.
- 1Prepare
- 2Read
- 3Check
- 4Produce
- 5Wrap-up
1 · Prepare
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Identify the main idea, check evidence, and reconstruct the sequence.
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2 · Read
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The residents of Sunfield began a community energy project after several winters of rising electricity bills. They installed solar panels on the roofs of the sports hall and two apartment blocks, then created a to manage the income. At first, meetings focused on the technical equipment, and fewer residents attended once the panels were working. The changed direction by publishing simple monthly reports and using part of the income to support families who could not afford heaters. This decision brought more residents into the discussion, including people who did not own their homes. The project still produces less power in cloudy months, and the must buy electricity from the grid. Nevertheless, the members now see the panels as one part of a wider agreement about shared resources. One early disagreement concerned how to divide the savings. Some members wanted an equal share for every household, while others believed that families using the supported heaters should receive more. The decided to review the rule each year, using figures from the monthly reports rather than a single show of hands. This slower, evidence-based approach frustrated a few residents at first, but it reduced the feeling that a small group was making decisions behind closed doors, and attendance at meetings slowly recovered. Their next plan is to improve before installing more panels.
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- Locate explicit information and relationships between ideas.
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B1.
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