EEG Community Solar Scheme

If you haven’t used your energyshare votes yet, can I ask you to consider supporting The Hub Lyme Regis in the large project category?

What makes The Hub special is its deep social impact. As well as adopting a progressive energy strategy, it’s a new project that reaches into the heart of our community, valuing young people and giving them the best start in life we can. We haven’t had a youth centre for a long time so this is a fresh start with lots of local good will to make it work. The Hub Lyme Regis is about vision, optimism, support and a unique moment to create something very special. It’s a very good story.

For details, please look at our project profile on www.energyshare.com/wwwhublymecouk

As a former resident of Elham I was delighted to learn of the fantastic aspirations that have developed on a theme of community energy schemes in the village. I was also implressed by the level of engagement that has clearly developed in Elham when I came to your recent consultation session in the village hall. I was delighted to learn of your bid for energyshare funding and have been a registered supporter of your project since noticing your group profile. I have learned that sadly you are not in the current voting round. However, I am confident that your group will brush off this disappointment and put the good progress that you have made to good use and find alternative sources of funding; perhaps a community share issue is on the cards!

I would like to share with you some good news about our project in Old Basing, Hampshire. The Old Basing Baden Powell Centre for Scouts and Guides is through as a medium category project. We are also a village community and are up against projects from much bigger communities such as Edinburgh and Swansea; we need all the help we can get! Therefore I hope that you will not mind my asking for your support.

Please vote for Old Basing Scout and Guide group at www.energyshare.com/voting you will find us in the medium category of groups. We are the only group of Guides and Scouts left in the final stage in this round of the competition. It would be a big help if you could spread the word among your friends and colleagues (especially Scouts and Guides) about our project in energyshare. Hopefully, by publishing our story will provide additional opportunities to talk about your project.

Our registered page is www.energyshare.com/scout-hut/ and you can also follow our progress on twitter @oldbasingtweets.

I look forward to hearing how your plans are progressing.

Regards
Andy
@oldbasingtweets

The Elham Environment Group is an exciting and pro-active initiative and could make Elham the Totnes of Kent! I wish you all the best and look forward to linking our two projects together so that we can make even bigger differences for the environment and for our communities. All the best, Jo (Abbot's Mill Project)

Elham Environment Group have a strong history of delivering successful environmental projects within their community and sharing the learning with other groups in Kent. They are great ambassadors for sustainability and this solar energy project is an obvious next step in their plan to make Elham a low carbon village. Aside from the direct benefits of installing solar panels on key community buildings, the panels should also help residents and visitors realise that renewable energy can become mainstream, dispelling myths and encouraging them to make sustainable changes to their own homes. Kent County Council Sustainability and Climate Change team continues to support Elham Environment Group and wishes them every success with the project.

The EEG group have been fantastic proponents of renewable energy and this things green for several years now. I think this project will really help to set Elham off on its low carbon ambitions. As an off-gas community Elham is heavily reliant on oil and LPG. The solar scheme will really make a very good point and hopefully catalyse more action in the future. With nearly 700 dwellings the community is relatively compact. The option, therefore, to adopt community renewables at a larger scale is positive and I look forward to hearing about other ides, including biomass heating. Good luck.

This is a really active group which has been running for about 4 years now and has implemented some fantastic energy saving ideas within the community. Their two most recent projects are in the planning of a community allotment scheme for which they have already identified a huge demand by means of a public questionnaire. Secondly, they are planning a community consultation on a village renewable energy scheme including medium and large scale biomass, wind turbine, and solar PV.