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 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. […]
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 […]
Our PowerStation Sheffield data is now out of date, but we have accessed the latest information from Ofgem that gives data from 2010 to September 2015.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/) […]
Our new Community Share Offer to raise £70,000 to install two more solar PV schemes will launch on Tuesday, November 1st at 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House, St James Street near the Cathedral in the city centre. Tea & coffee available at 6.45 pm. Our first new scheme will be on the roof of […]
In case you haven’t noticed that the Department for Energy & Climate Change has been abolished, you might like to read the following from BioRegional – http://www.bioregional.com/deccs-demise-is-there-a-silver-lining/
Sheffield Renewables joined 90 other northern community groups in a call for the Budget to include measures to support renewable energy. The UK government should be celebrating clean energy as core to its economic plan. See http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/clean_energy_declaration for the full statement and list of organisations that signed up, before it was sent to the Chancellor. […]