• Great British energy community energy fund approx 40k

  • Bath and west community energy

  • Structures:

    • Recommend community benefit society, sim to coop
    • Regulated by FCA
    • recent issue at 5.75%
    • for profit
    • AGM decides on benefits, target carbon reduction and warm homes

  • campaigning for direct sale of energy

  • EST 2010 out of transition bath and transition Corsham

  • raised 25m, 15m community, 10m triodos

  • new 5 year plan

    • increase community renewables
    • sell local energy
    • increase surplus
    • expand retrofit
    • increase participation

  • fairy hill solar farm (Compton dando)

    • 3b grade land, “can’t do anything with it”
    • permissive access
    • 4.5 acres
    • 2mw equivalent to 800 homes
    • energy local club
    • ring fenced benefit

  • chelwood solar farm

    • 5mw, 22 acres

  • 2022 3 engagement processes begun in Banes

    • don’t know what outcome is yet

  • not looking at roof top solar in this process

    • tool to show substantial benefit to ground solar and wind

  • have met returns so far

  • try to develop sites with grants, investors pay for build

  • 800 per mw solar 12-1400 for wind

  • returns1k solar 2.2 wind

Very rough figures

Turbines go to 150m to tip, tend to be getting larger for obvious reasons

Is it possible to use mod, tend to be open to the idea

John Malone empowered projects out of digital mansion Isabella