Following the AGM in January, it was agreed that Sheffield Renewables would hold an SGM on the 26th March to update members on progress with work on the tender proposals for Jordan Dam. Once again it was a snowy evening but 54 members still managed to attend and a further 54 members gave votes via […]
Sheffield Renewables’ 2013 AGM took place on Tuesday 22 January at 7pm. It was preceded by an interesting talk by Graham Woods, one of the volunteers on our hydro technical team, about the evolution of low head hydro power. 50 members attended despite the snow with 25 apologies received and 10 members requesting papers for […]
Everyone at Sheffield Renewables would like to say a big thank you to all of our investors and supporters and we are pleased to announce that we have managed to raise a huge £210,410 (and counting). This is a fantastic commitment from people willing to invest in Sheffield’s green future. We have a few major milestones […]
Sheffield Renewables are giving the fish population in the River Don a Christmas present to be delivered in 2013. Incorporated into our plans for Jordan’s Dam Hydro are a fish and eel pass and improvements to the river channel to make it more fish and eel friendly. The weirs on the Don acts as barriers […]
Have you been meaning to invest but just haven’t got round to it yet? You’re not alone; research shows that most investment comes in the last weeks, so act now! Two weeks to go, and we’ve managed to raise an impressive £133,060 so far, that’s just over half way to our target. Support and interest has […]
We were nominated for a Sheffield Transition Award and went along to the ceremony on Thursday, December 6th at the Burton St Foundation, near Hillsborough, not knowing what to expect. I thought it would probably be a very sober, worthy evening, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was indeed worthy, because all those […]
Sheffield Renewables has the perfect gift for a more ethical, green and local Christmas present; we are very excited to announce that shares in the organisation can now be bought as presents (shares start at £250 with an option of paying in monthly instalments.) Around £1.7 billion is spent on unwanted Christmas presents each year, […]
Here at Sheffield Renewables we knew that we weren’t the only ones wanting to create electricity from hydro sources, what we didn’t know is the extent of its use in other countries. So here come the very impressive figures; 59% of Austria’s, 69% Of Canada’s, 79% of Iceland’s, 87% of Brazil’s and a massive 99% […]
Whilst it is all systems go for the Community Share Launch on Saturday 15th September work on the rest of the project and organisation carries on. We have recently recruited two paid employees to give us the organisational capacity to speed up both the fundraising and project development. Emma (pictured) has joined us as General […]
Sheffield Renewables sailed home to victory with their homemade bright orange flag and won the prize of raft and crew covered in the most flour. Crowds lined the banks of the river Don armed with flour bombs and water pistols and did a very good job of covering the rafts in flour. The Sheffield Renewables […]