Sheffield Renewables awarded grant funding to support NHS green transition!
“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 […]
Moo-ving ahead with renewables feasibility study at Our Cow Molly!
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 […]
Annual General Meeting 2024
This year’s AGM took place at Meersbrook Park Church, and it was great to see a good number of our long standing members as well as some new faces! Sheffield Renewables has now generated over 1.3 million kWhs since inception, and is firmly established as a financially viable community energy organisation. In our 9 years […]
New Solar PV Project Underway!
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 […]
2022 Highlights
In February we were invited to a “meet and greet” with the Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero, Ed Miliband. The group has built close ties with Olivia Blake (MP for Hallam) who was previously spoken of our work in Parliament. First stop was our partner Lembas, who provide local, fresh produce […]
Annual General Meeting 2022
Our Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday, February 19th on-line. The main headlines: 34 members attended. One of our long-standing directors, Abigail Hathway, resigned and was thanked for all her hard work over the years. Erin Lachs was voted in as our new Chair. We had a successful year’s generation of electricity. We have […]
Annual General Meeting 2021
Our AGM was held on-line this year. The main papers are available below. The papers are: Agenda (word doc) Minutes of AGM 2020 (PDF) Accounts (PDF) CBF Report from 2020 (word doc) Statement from Ted Datta (word doc) The minutes of this year’s meeting are here (PDF). The Chair’s presentation is here(PDF). Future Directions presentation by Luke […]
Coronavirus Lockdown
We are unable to go to our office. We are collecting post now and then, but we cannot answer telephone calls. If you need to contact us for any reason, please email: info@sheffieldrenewables.org.uk
AGM 2020
We had a successful AGM on February 29th. Thirty-three members attended. Our Chair, Richard Collins, gave an overview of the last year. We had no new projects due to a variety of reasons. https://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AGM-2020.png Operationally the year had been successful for our existing projects. Our four schemes are all working well and still generating more […]
Coronavirus Lockdown
During the Lockdown we are unable to go to our office. This means that we are unable to reply to any letters or telephone calls. We are also unable to send out invoices at the moment. If you need to contact us please write to info@sheffieldrenewables.org.uk
Annual General Meeting February 2019
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 […]
Annual General Meeting 2019
Papers for our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, February 2nd. Agenda: Agenda AGM 2019 Minutes of AGM 2018: AGM 2018 Minutes Accounts 2018: 2018accounts
Want to play an active role in making Sheffield a sustainable city…? We’re recruiting!
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 […]
Annual General Meeting 2018
We had a very successful AGM on Saturday, February 24th. Forty members attended out of a total membership of 262. Our Chair, Richard Collins, reported on the performance of our four solar PV schemes and other work carried out during the year. The fifth scheme, which was to be installed in summer 2017, had to […]
Sheffield Solar Roofs press release
The article in the Big Issue regarding our search for more Sheffield roofs to install solar power onto.
Sheffield site needed for our fully funded 5th solar pv project
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. […]
Community Energy England – State of the Sector
Last month Community Energy England released the first Community Energy: State of the Sector report – the most in-depth study of national community energy activities to date. The report provides an insightful and powerful snapshot of the amazing achievements of the community energy movement which we are proud to be a part of. The State […]
Community Energy Fortnight – our request to our local MPs
This year Community Energy Fortnight is linking up with the Speak Up! Week of Action to showcase community energy initiatives across the country and to demonstrate how community energy is helping to create a clean and secure future for your local area. People up and down the country are eager to be part of the […]
Solar Aid Donation
It was agreed at our AGM that we would donate £252 of the Community Benefit Fund to Solar Aid. We have now made this donation and we understand that this will contribute: Solar Aid