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At our Delabole wind farm, also in Cornwall , we created a local tariff that offers cheaper renewable electricity to nearby homes, both as a ‘thank you’ to the local community for hosting the wind farm, but also as a way of ‘closing the loop’ between local renewable generation and supply.
Good Energy has a proud track record of working with communities since we were founded in 1999. We were early pioneers in enabling small generators to connect to the grid and we were rewarding individual homeowners and communities for generating renewable electricity well before the government’s Feed-in-Tariff came into existence.
Over the years we’ve worked with some of the UK’s foremost community energy schemes. We were involved at the outset with the development of the community-owned wind farm and subsequent solar co-operative at Westmill in Oxfordshire.
Through our Feed-in-Tariff and power-purchasing services, we now support dozens of other community-scale generators, from Wedmore Community Solar Farm in Somerset to the community wind farm on the Isle of Gigha off the west coast of Scotland.
We believe that community involvement will be the key to keeping up momentum on renewables deployment in the post-subsidy world. Quite simply, we need people power to build a clean, safe and fair energy future for all.
So we have started to make the case for a policy and legislative framework which more actively supports community energy. If you’ve got views on this, we’re keen to hear from you – email me at Will.McMyn@goodenergy.co.uk
Good Energy is a 2006 Ashden Award winner.