{"id":1,"date":"2011-11-25T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:49:30","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/2011\/11\/25\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Leominster Community Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/files\/2011\/07\/Leominster-Bridge-Street11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19\" src=\"\/files\/2011\/07\/Leominster-Bridge-Street11-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/files\/2011\/07\/Leominster-Bridge-Street11-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/files\/2011\/07\/Leominster-Bridge-Street11.jpeg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 2012 LCSC \u00a0installed a 49kW solar array on the \u00a0Bridge Street Sports Centre in Leominster, generating clean, green electricity for the centre. \u00a094 people joined the co-op. This was a first for Herefordshire as a wholly community owned renewable energy project and one of the largest solar roofs in the county. It was one of the very first community solar roofs in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025 LCSC merged with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigsolar.coop\"> Big Solar Co-op<\/a>. LCSC had been looking for a succession plan for the co-op and the members voted for a Transfer of Engagements, with LCSC members becoming Big Solar Co-op members and the solar array moving to being owned and managed by Big Solar Co-op.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 LCSC \u00a0installed a 49kW solar array on the \u00a0Bridge Street Sports Centre in Leominster, generating clean, green electricity for the centre. \u00a094 people joined the co-op. This was a first for Herefordshire as a wholly community owned renewable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/2011\/11\/25\/welcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharenergy.coop\/leominstersolar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}