Portfolio

ACE Hydro

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Aberdeen Community Energy was Aberdeen’s first community energy scheme, set up in 2015, and they have built, own and operate Donside Hydro, a 100 kW micro hydro scheme. Electricity produced by Donside Hydro is sold to the national grid, and income raised is used to support a range of community and environmental projects in the local area.

Big Solar Co-op

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The Big Solar Co-op is a new approach to subsidy-free community solar, supported by Sharenergy. The project is working across the UK to:

• Make solar viable on a huge range of sites – without subsidy
• Empower and support volunteers to work together to get it built
• Fight the climate crisis through large-scale, grassroots community action

Braemar Community Hydro Ltd

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This hydro scheme now generates clean, low carbon electricity from the Corriemulzie Burn on the outskirts of Braemar, with the surplus going to a well-established local community group.

Brent Pure Energy Ltd

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Brent Pure Energy Community Benefit Society have successfully raised funding to install solar panels at 2 schools in the London Borough of Brent.

Brighton Energy Coop

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Brighton Energy Ltd is one of the largest community energy organisations in the country, having built scores of solar PV systems on community buildings, educational facilities and business premises across East Sussex and beyond. BEC have supported scores of local community initiatives in and around Brighton and Hove, are a vocal supporter of improved energy policies, and remain one of the driving forces for the community energy sector.

Chase Community Solar

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CCS raised over £1 million in 2015, through a community share offer and loan, so that, with the support of Cannock Chase Council, they could fit 314 of their council bungalows with solar panels.

Congleton Hydro

Congleton Hydro is a 65kW hydro scheme at Havannah Weir on the River Dane just north of Congleton, Cheshire. The project has been developed by Dane Valley Community Energy over five years of hard work, and was one of the last projects to lock in a Feed-in tariff in the UK. Much of the energy from the hydro will be sold direct to a nearby factory.

Corwen Electricity Co-op

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Corwen Electricity Co-operative’s 55kW hydro scheme was commissioned in 2017, reducing Corwen’s carbon footprint and raising money for local community projects.

Dingwall Wind Co-operative

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Dingwall Wind Co-op own and run a 250kW wind turbine in Ross-shire which was commissioned in 2014. Energy produced by the turbine is sold to the grid, and the co-operative regularly contribute to a community fund that is used to support local community projects.

Egni Co-op

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Egni Coop have an incredibly ambitious programme of solar installs having pre-registered for the Feed in Tariff on 250 sites across Wales. They are aiming to install 5MW – the biggest rollout of solar power in Welsh history.

Fetlar Wind

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Fetlar is one of the islands that make up Shetland, one of the windiest inhabited places on the planet. Fetlar Wind run 2 25kW turbines which feed into their own island grid.

GMCR Greater Manchester Community Renewables

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GMCR have built solar PV systems on schools and community buildings across the Greater Manchester area, with around 300kWp of solar arrays installed across 8 sites. Electricity generated is sold to the national grid and money raised is used to support a range of carbon reduction, energy efficiency and environmental education projects.

Gower Regeneration Ltd

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GowerRegen have built a 1 megawatt community owned solar farm which is now in wider community ownership.

Grannell Community Energy

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Grannell Community Energy raised £368,406 in 2018 to fund the construction of a wind turbine at Ffrwd Farm, Llanwnnen in Ceredigion, which is now up and running and generating clean power.

Green Fox Community Energy Co-operative

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Green Fox is Leicester and Leicestershire’s very own community energy co-operative. Established by local people, the co-operative aims to facilitate the increase of community owned renewable and low carbon technology.

Grimsby Community Energy

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Grimsby Community Energy Limited is a Community Benefit Society which has installed PV panels on 5 community buildings in Grimsby, amounting to a total capacity of 100kW. They are supplying cheap electricity to the buildings where the panels are located, putting money into a community benefit fund, and reducing CO₂ emissions by about 800 tonnes over 20 years.

Heartland Community Wind

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Heartland Community Wind operate a pair of wind turbines near Aberfeldy, producing 500 kW of power. The Society’s community fund supports scholarships for local young people at nearby Perth College.

Ledbury Community Solar

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Ledbury Community Solar operate a 90kW solar array on the Shaw healthcare building in Ledbury, which was commissioned in 2014.

Leominster Community Solar Co-operative

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Leominster Community Solar Coop installed a 49kW solar array on the  Bridge Street Sports Centre in Leominster, generating clean, green electricity for the centre.

Leominster Sunrise Co-operative

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Leominster Sunrise Co-operative have installed a 91kW solar photovoltaic array on the new primary school in Leominster, Herefordshire, to generate as much solar electricity as possible for the school to use and reduce their energy bills.

Ludlow Hydro Co-operative

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LHC was created in 2015 to fund-raise and install an Archimedean screw turbine at Ludford Mill in Shropshire. The turbine harnesses the River Teme to generate hydro-electricity from Ludlow’s Horseshoe Weir. At the centre or apex of the weir is a fish pass.

Malvern Community Energy Cooperative Ltd

Malvern Community Energy Cooperative have installed a 30kWp solar array on the thriving community venue, the Malvern Cube.

Nadder Community Energy Ltd

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NCE are based in Wiltshire. Their first share raise in 2015 was a massive success, enabling them to put PV panels on local schools. They’ve since used their Community Fund to pilot a scheme to provide Air Source Heat Pumps to people in need.

Neen Sollars Community Hydropower Co-operative

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Neen Sollars Community Hydro owns and runs a 12.5kW hydroelectric installation at Tetstill Mill, Neen Sollars on the River Rea. The project is funded by a co-operative share issue and owned by local people. The turbine provides green electricity to the local electrical grid, potentially corresponding to around 10-20% of the domestic power use in Neen Sollars.

NICE (Northern Ireland Community Energy)

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Northern Ireland’s first solar co-operative. NICE installed solar PV arrays between 4 kW & 15 kW on 18 Northern Ireland 3rd sector organisations

Pomona Solar Coop

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Pomona Solar’s 300 kW array provides PV power direct to small businesses on a farm in Herefordshire, with some left over for the grid on sunny days. It’s an innovative project, showing that small-scale field arrays can be viable. Members and Directors of Pomona have supported numerous other social and community initiatives across the Marches region.

Reading Hydro CBS Ltd

Reading Hydro Community Benefit Society is a community hydro-electric scheme designed to harness the power of the River Thames.

Their aim is to build twin Archimedes screws beside Caversham lock and weir in Reading. They are currently in their build-phase, scheduled to be commissioned and generating by Spring 2021.

Shropshire and Telford Community Energy

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Shropshire and Telford Community Energy (STCE) is a new group looking at community energy opportunities across the area. One of the first projects that STCE might take on is the Twemlows Solar Farm near Whitchurch, Shropshire.  This 10MW scheme was built in 2015 using private finance but is now looking for a new home in the community sector. STCE have recently secured a grant from Power to Change to investigate potential new renewable community energy sites in Shropshire and Telford.

Southern Staffordshire Community Energy

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After building two solar PV systems on community buildings in Whittington, Southern Staffordshire Community Energy went on to build eight more on the site of the University Hospital of the North Midlands. SSCE work closely with community organisations to support their work to combat fuel poverty across the region, whilst also providing low-cost electricity to the hospital site, a hospice and two village halls. Several of the board members of SSCE also went on to establish another community scheme which built over 300 solar PV systems in Cannock Chase, providing low-cost energy to householders

Southill Community Energy

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SCE developed and operates Southill Solar, Oxon, which has been generating green electricity since November 2016. See their website for details of their impressive wildlife measures on site including their innovative thermosolar beehives!

Swansea Community Energy Ltd

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SCEES was set up in 2015 to develop community-owned solar projects in Swansea. In 2016, they installed solar PV panels on 9 schools and 1 care home in and around the wards of Townhill and Penderry in Swansea.

The Small Wind Co-op

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Small Wind Co-op members own 5 wind turbines on 3 sites across Wales, Scotland and England. It is SWC’s mission to build the portfolio of turbines in a sustainable way, fulfilling its objective of increasing the amount of community-owned renewable energy capacity at a time when government policy has focussed on offshore wind. Local community funds near the turbine sites will be supported by the Society.

Unisolar Ltd

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UniSolar is a community energy initiative that aims to bring solar panels to the roofs of UK universities.

Wedmore Community Power Cooperative

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Wedmore Community Power Co-operative owns a 1 MW groundmounted solar project, set up in 2013 by people living on the Isle of Wedmore in Somerset to enable their community to use solar energy.

Wester Derry Wind Co-operative

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Wester Derry Wind Co-op is a not for profit co-op which owns a 250 kW wind turbine at Kilry near Alyth in Glen Isla on the border of Angus and Perthshire. The turbine is 100% co-operatively owned by its 180  members and generates a community benefit fund for local schools

Whalley Community Hydro

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Whalley Community Hydro generates clean, green electricity from the power of the River Calder in Whalley in the Ribble Valley.

Woolhope Dome Community Woodfuel Co-operative

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Woolhope Woodheat is a Community Co-operative in South Herefordshire which owns and operates biomass boilers and provides sustainable, locally sourced wood fuel for those boilers, reducing carbon emissions and saving neglected woodland from decay.

Ynni Anafon Energy

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The largest community hydro project south of Scotland and a real beacon for community renewables in North Wales.

Ynni Teg

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YnNi Teg built a 900 kW wind turbine in Carmarthenshire in 2017 which generates over 1700MWh per year. This Community Benefit Society supports a number of community initiatives around the Meidrim area.