In case you never heard of them, Community Energy Plus is a social enterprise that provides complete energy answers for the community in Cornwall, helping them to enjoy warmer, energy efficient homes and a better life in general. The good news is that they recently re-launched the very successful Solar Communities project, this social project helps reducing the carbon footprint in homes and businesses by offering them free solar PV.
In 2011, there were 22 buildings that benefited from this initiative, the total amount was 177kW of free solar panels.
The event took place in Camborne, Cornwall and was made possible by local investors and installers in order to fund the solar PV on the roofs of the building which took part in the project.
In the project were involved commercial and domestic buildings as well as public/community premises.
The total installations of PV panels were in amount of 50 KW and Community Energy Plus said that the good people from Camborne will save £2,500 on their electricity bills each and every year, not to mention the carbon foot print reduction and the energy independence solar panels provide as an additional benefit.
In the near future, Community Energy Plus expects that a larger number of people will come around and take advantage of this free offer, based on the fact that several large organizations were already interested in this green project.
The Sustainable Energy Projects Manager at Community Energy Plus, MR. Neil Farrington made the following statement:
“Having been overwhelmed with interest last year, it’s fantastic that we are able to now continue with the project, allowing more buildings to take advantage of free solar energy without the barrier of raising capital to fund their own installations. We’re hoping to install a significantly larger amount of solar PV, and that as many buildings as possible come forward.”He added: “Cornwall has the best solar resource in the UK, so we want to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the feed-in-tariff and retain the economic benefits of it locally.”
The Manager at the Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, who already installed 9 KW of free solar panels, through the first phase of the scheme that took place in May of 2012, made the following comment:
“Since installation in the spring the panels have performed well, reducing our energy bills by approximately 10%. This combined with an approximately 10% reduction in energy requirements through raised awareness amongst the staff and volunteers has made a significant difference to our carbon footprint and have reduced our carbon emissions by approximately 6 tons."
The Managing Director at Plug into the Sun, Mr. Andy Tanner whose company was part of the project stated that:
“Given that energy prices are on the rise yet again, we want communities, home owners and businesses to come forward and take advantage of this offer to allow their buildings to receive free electricity. We’ve been installing solar panels for over seven years, and we’re really pleased to again be part of this scheme to continue the spread of renewable technology across Devon and Cornwall”.
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