Judges have revealed finalists for the ninth Observer Ethical Awards, the competition aimed at rewarding exceptional individuals and businesses in the field of sustainability and green...
Westmill Solar Co-operative – the Oxfordshire-based 5 megawatt (MW) solar farm that raised over £4m in a community share offer in 2012 – has been recognised...
The South African Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) will look at responsible investment in property, after signing up to a sustainable real estate organisation. GEPF, the...
Lancashire county council’s pension fund has invested £12m in the UK’s first community-owned solar development in South Oxfordshire. Westmill, which is also believed to be the...
Blue Energy, the renewable energy firm that installed panels for the successful Westmill Solar Co-operative, has announced plans to build Africa’s largest solar farm. The 155...
I have been an avid watcher of the community energy sector and personally did a lot of the preparatory work into a community wind turbine, which...
Two not-for-profit organisations have clubbed together in order to provide Westmill Solar Co-operative – the UK’s first and world’s largest community-owned solar farm – with specialist...
Westmill Solar Co-operative today became the UK’s first and the world’s largest community-owned solar farm, after its board of directors announced that it had successfully acquired...
A high-profile alliance of charities, co-operatives and organisations has published a manifesto to help advance community-owned renewable energy in the UK. Energy secretary Ed Davey is...
Last month Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, and Good Energy’s founder and CEO, Juliet Davenport, paid a visit to one of the...
Westmill Solar Co-operative, the community-funded renewable energy scheme, has closed its share offer and announced it has comfortably met its initial £4m investment target. The project,...
Just nine days remain until Westmill Solar Co-operative’s share offer closes, and the project is within touching distance of its £4m target, as well as a...
In just over three weeks, the Westmill Solar Co-operative has raised over £2m in its attempt to create the “world’s largest community owned solar farm”. The...
The “world’s largest community-owned solar farm” has raised £1m just over a week after launching its initial share offer. More than 270 people have pledged cash...
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