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Community owned energy companies thrown into turmoil by feed-in tariff review
Posted by Chris Rowland on 10th February 2011 at 11:17 am
Community-owned energy companies across the UK are shocked and dismayed at yesterday's announcement of an early review of the feed-in tariff by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne. A growing number of community-owned companies have been set up to build renewable ene…
Posted in: Solar electricity
Share issue for UK's first community-owned power station launches
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 15th April 2011 at 9:06 am
Lewes-based energy company Ovesco is racing to get the country's first community-owned solar power station up and running before the feed-in tariff rates are slashed on 1 August. The not-for-profit industrial and provident society has teamed up with East Sussex brewery, Harveys, to install 544 so…
Posted in: General, Solar electricity
Community-owned solar power station opens up share offer
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 2nd May 2011 at 9:59 am
Lewes-based energy services company, Ovesco, has raised three quarters of the £307,000 it needs to build the UK's first community owned solar power station. So far, virtually all the pledges and investments have come from local people. However, as they are racing to get the panels ordered …
Posted in: General, Green Electricity
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