The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) was founded in 1973 in a disused slate quarry in Mid Wales by a group of forward-thinking innovators. Driven by a vision to bring alternative technologies to life, they built a live lab to find out which worked and which didn’t. At that time there was virtually no green energy generation.

The pioneers of CAT set out to develop and prove, by a positive living example, new technologies that would provide practical solutions to the problems that are now worrying both the world’s ecologists and energy analysts. CAT’s first hydroelectric turbine was installed ...

 

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