The Guardian recommends renewable energy and community finance schemes for steady long-term returns: Patrick Collinson’s top 7 places to invest (Guardian, Tuesday 26th). “Sounds nice and green but too woolly and not likely to make much of a profit? Not at all – many renewable energy schemes are products designed by financiers to give steady long-term returns...
Solarcentury announce the Ferry Farm solar project. Ferry Farm Community Solar, a community benefit society, is celebrating as the 5MWp community solar farm near Selsey, West Sussex has been connected to the grid and the panels are now generating electricity from the sun. The solar farm will produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of...
Following the Brexit vote it’s likely that there will be a long period of readjustment in the UK. Less money in your pocket and more expensive imports are likely, but investors look to non-traditional investment products such as our shares and bonds offer an opportunity. Our projects have relatively predictable long-term cash flows, our FIT rate is fixed for 20 years, index-linked and...
The Brexit result this morning will add to the challenges faced by the renewable energy industry delivering future projects, for example European equipment costs. However, with the benefit of inflation-linked incomes, operating renewable energy projects will gain from rising inflation. With interest rates of 6% for 20 years, the community solar share and bond offers supported...
Ferry Farm Community Solar: we’re now making electricity from sunshine and providing low-carbon electricity to the local grid! We’d like the benefits of investing to go to local people, check out our community share offer on www.ethex.org.uk/FerryFarm Find out what the local papers think: www.chichester.co.uk/news/business/business-news/selsey-and-sidlesham-community-groups-set-to-benefit-from-project-1-7436553
Buckingham and the surrounding parishes spend almost £20 million per year on energy, almost all of which leaves the local economy. A new community solar farm is being built at Gawcott Fields Farm, between Buckingham and Gawcott. Construction is already underway and the solar farm is due to be exporting low carbon electricity to the...
The array will generate enough clean electricity to power 1,000 homes. As well as supporting Four Greens Trust CIC the project is set to provide £2.9 million to local fuel poverty and climate change projects. PEC Renewables are offering the opportunity to buy community shares. You can own a part of the project for as little as £50,...
The solar farm at Ernesettle Lane in Plymouth is one step closer to completion! Take a look at the news report in the Plymouth Herald.
The framework which will support the panels is has been installed and the panels themselves have begun arriving on a soggy but sunny site in Plymouth. The solar farm will be built over the next month and is set to be generating clean energy before the end of March. The site is low-grade land previously...
Our Community Energy Group Network event helps groups understand how to: navigate grid issues find out how they can work together with Western Power Distribution (WPD) to secure a grid connection as well as help us feedback to DECC and Ofgem to remove barriers Plymouth Date & time: 5 November 2015, 13:00 – 17:30 Venue: Foot Anstey, Plymouth...
