“Sheffield Renewables has been awarded £8,718 from the Northern Powergrid NetZero Community Energy Fund (NHS SY ICB). We will help NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board engage GP surgeries to raise awareness of climate change, energy use reduction and sustainability. This will also support NHS net zero commitments by promoting existing solutions to decarbonise […]
Exciting news, we have successfully secured a grant from the 2024 Community Energy Fund (North East & Yorkshire Net Zero Hub) for a renewable energy feasibility study at Cliffe House farm, aka Our Cow Molly! The study aims at diversifying the farm’s activities further into renewable energies (wind & solar) & involves multiple partners: Our […]
What better way to celebrate a sunny weekend in June than installing some new Community Solar in Sheffield! June 11th saw 12 kWp of Sheffield Renewables funded Solar PV installed on the Common House at Five Rivers Co-housing, a volunteer led group building 22 housing units. The Common House will support communal living, powering the […]
We had a successful meeting on February 2nd at the Quaker Meeting House. Forty-four members attended and the full minutes are available here:SR AGM minutes 2019 Our Chair, Richard Collins, reported that all four sites are currently generating well. As a result the meeting was able to agree to a 3% interest payment on all […]
Sheffield Renewables is committed to making Sheffield a low carbon, resilient and sustainable city. We believe this can only be done through together taking real practical and positive action collectively. Despite a period of uncertainty in the renewable energy industry we remain focused on developing community owned and controlled energy schemes which benefit the city […]
Sheffield Renewables 2016 Share offer was very successful, raising enough money for two new solar PV schemes. The first of which was successfully completed earlier this year at Lembas Wholefood wholesalers. A significant amount of work had been undertaken to develop the second scheme to the position that we were about to install the panels. […]
Our PowerStation Sheffield data is now out of date, but we have accessed the latest information from Ofgem that gives data from 2010 to September 2015. From this we have calculated the total capacity of renewable energy installations in Sheffield (S) post-codes. From 2010 – September 2015 10,111 renewable energy installations were registered with Ofgem […]
We are really pleased that we have received nearly £60,000 in investment (as at December 6th). It has been amazing to see the support of existing and new members. This means we can go ahead with the installation at Lembas – it should start next week (week of December 12th). If you are thinking of […]
Our share offer launch was only the first of several opportunities to speak to us about our new Share Offer in November. Today we are at the Peace and Craft Fair in Sheffield Town Hall. We have long exhibited at community events such as Peace in the Park and the Peace and Craft Fair (http://peaceandcraftfair.btck.co.uk/) […]