The Cornwall Climate Care film Power to the People will be shown at the Plaza Cinema on Thursday, highlighting the importance of sustainable energy solutions.

Presented by Cornish surfer and geologist Lucy Cotton, Power to the People explores the exciting opportunities, huge challenges and frustrating problems facing us in our efforts to reduce fossil fuel usage.

With plentiful resources of wind, sun, tides, geothermal heat and critical minerals, Cornwall is in a unique position to drive the UK’s clean energy revolution. However, the UK’s 100-year-old grid infrastructure leaves many new renewables projects unable to get connected until 2036.

Meanwhile, large numbers of people across Cornwall are living in badly insulated homes that they can’t afford to heat due to massive energy price rises caused by our dependence on foreign gas.

The film covers a wide range of stories, including a huge floating offshore wind development planned off the north Cornish coast, which could generate up to 40 per cent of the UK’s electricity; a farmer who’s found a way to combine food production with solar panels; looking to the past for ways of generating energy, from traditionally coppiced firewood to the potential of our abandoned tin mines; and the energy potential of the rocks beneath our feet, being brought to the surface from deep geothermal wells drilled over 5km down.

This screening will be attended by Lucy Cotton, Piers Guy of Celtic Sea Power and Cllr Martyn Alvey, Cornwall Council’s portfolio holder for Environment and Climate Change, all of whom will take part in a panel discussion and answer audience questions.

Award-winning charity Cornwall Climate Care has produced Cornwall’s Climate Stories, a series of 30-minute films which have been praised by Sir David Attenborough.

Presented by 'real' people, ranging from fishermen to foragers and trail runners, with stories set against the backdrop of the gorgeous Cornish landscape, the documentaries cover a wide range of topics and aim to spark community conversations and action on the climate crisis.

The screening is sponsored by renewable energy solutions provider ZLC Energy. Tickets cost £10 and can be booked via www.tickettailor.com

For further showings, visit cornwallclimatecare.org