Two Sheffield groups are desperate for people to help them win British Gas cash to bring renewable energy to South Yorkshire and are calling for everyone to go online and make it a reality. Public voting for Millhouses Mill Buildings [1] and Sheffield Renewables [2] to win over £125,000 towards two local community renewable energy […]
Volunteers filled the room on Tuesday evening, eager to find out more about energyshare and how they could help out. The voting had been going less than 6 hours and Radio Sheffield had already broadcast a call to vote on our behalf. Once they realised that energyshare could provide £100,000 towards Jordan Dam Hydro (all […]
The excellent news is we’ve been selected for the ‘Top 10’ vote on energyshare. This means we could win £100,000 towards development costs for Jordan Dam Hydro. We are in the ‘large’ project category where only one winner will be selected. There are also ‘medium’ and ‘small’ categories. To win the cash we need to […]
We recently submitted our bid to energyshare which we hope will win us a significant amount of the funding we need to build Jordan Dam Hydro. We now have a nervous wait until the judges announce the ‘Top 10’ projects which will go to the final public vote. This announcement will be made by the […]
The room full of volunteers were chatting in small groups from the start at this month’s team based discussion night. The sneak preview of Powerstation Sheffield’s Renewable Trumps bought out the valuable team spirit as volunteers competed against fellow team members to practise for the team challenge. They soon realised that there was a serious […]
Over the weekend of August 20th/21st we carried out some more work at Kelham Island. We removed the straw bales that were used on the previous work day to prevent silt being carried out into the river. We carried out a detailed survey to enable us to build a hydrological model of the site. We […]
A really good team of volunteers turned out to promote our message at the Green Fair at St Mary’s, Brammall Lane on Saturday, June 25th. Good weather and good promotion by the organisers ensured a very busy day. Matt was with us to promote PowerStation Sheffield and had his new trump cards to try out […]
A big thank-you to everyone that helped us make it through the first round of the EnergyShare funding competition thanks to a burst of activity driven by our supporters. We were amazed that so many people got on board asking friends, neighbours and colleagues to support our plans for Jordan Dam Hydro by signing up […]
On 4th June Sheffield Renewables attended the annual Peace in the Park festival. With a larger than usual space for our marquee (many thanks to Fireside Co-Housing), the day was an undoubted success with a total of 28 new supporters/volunteers/investors signing up on the day and others declaring an interest in coming along to future […]
Sheffield Renewables has received funding from the organisation Artists Project Earth (APE) to develop a new project called Powerstation Sheffield. The project aims to encourage low carbon lifestyles and the development of local renewable energy schemes within the city, in a way that is accessible and relevant to everyone. A key objective of the project […]