Reading Hydro’s initial share offers raised over £980,000, and have now launched an updated share offer to help them raise the £170,000 needed to complete the final stages of the project. Their updated share offer closes on 8th April 2021. Please click here to make an application.
The Sharenergy office is open as usual for enquiries through the lockdown period, with some adjustments made for the fact we are mostly working from home
Sharenergy are working on setting up a Shropshire and Telford Community Energy group (STCE). See www.stcenergy.org.uk. There were three meetings in Whitchurch, Shrewsbury & Wellington in the first week of February to explore the possibilities of taking on Twemlows solar farm and future projects.
There is a further meeting in Bishop’s Castle, 2pm Fri 21st venue tbc
and a webinar 7pm Wed 26th Feb, book here,
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/shropshire-community-energy-webinar-get-involved-tickets-93926543821
We’re proud to support the Reading Hydro share offer. Reading Hydro have now reached their target of £700,000 to install two Archimedes Screw turbines for a total of 46 kW, at Caversham Weir on the River Thames, which are expected to generate 320MWh of renewable electricity each year.
The hard work of all the people involved with the Small Wind Coop came to fruition yesterday when the turbine on the Welsh site reached completion.
The treasury have announced that Social Investment Tax Relief will not replace Enterprise Investment Scheme for community energy projects with almost immediate effect. This means that members of community energy projects will be ineligible for the tax reliefs of SEIS, EIS and SITR for shares issued from November 30th 2015 (where projects are also… Read more »