Author Archives: Jon Halle

We’ve now made realtime data from our solar array available online here. The eagle eyed will notice that we have already gone over the 42,000 kWh predicted in our share offer document – must be because we’ve had such a sunny year! … Continue reading →

11,951 kWH. That’s the production figure until 17 April 2012, which is over 10% above that predicted for the period! We’re hoping to install a fully automated system soon so system production figures will appear in near-real-time on this website, … Continue reading →

We generated our first few kWhs a few minutes ago and have our MCS certificate – Eithne is now busy getting the paperwork done to make sure we are correctly registered for FiTS in time! If you were waiting to … Continue reading →

Its a battle against the weather right now – we love a bit of wind but could it wait until Monday please! Some pics from yesterday

Latest from the installers: We have over 100 panels on at Halo, another 58 planned today, scaffolding alteration booked in for tomorrow morning, remaining panels on tomorrow. Tomorrow (Thursday) we will also have the electrical witness testing going on for … Continue reading →

Panels and mounting gear are on site and installers are up on the roof, racing against time to ensure the installation is completed in good time for registration before 12th December.  The photo here shows progress so far, with panels … Continue reading →

We are roughly half way through our share offer in time and in members investments – we still need the other half so please tell anyone you know that the project is going ahead! The scaffolding was up and nearly … Continue reading →

In 2012 LCSC  installed a 49kW solar array on the  Bridge Street Sports Centre in Leominster, generating clean, green electricity for the centre.  94 people joined the co-op. This was a first for Herefordshire as a wholly community owned renewable … Continue reading →

We’ve now paid the first deposit to the installers and are going full tilt to build the array before the new Feed-in tariff cutoff point. To see a great video of them at work on a previous site see our … Continue reading →

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