Community Power Cornwall

Community Power Cornwall aims to form enduring, successful partnerships with residents, local government, local businesses, co-operatives, third-sector organisations, approved technology providers and key stakeholders to develop a diverse, secure and sustainable supply of renewable energy for the benefit of the local community and its members. Community Power Cornwall keenly anticipates the influx of talent, skills and ideas from new members through future collaborations and share offers, creating independent, commercially viable local energy co-operatives that meet the broad objectives of the society. The election of the current government in 2015 has presented a number of key challenges to the way Community Power Cornwall has been operating with changes to subsidies and the introduction of new planning controls, through the release of ministerial statements on Solar and Wind, directly effecting our established business model and technology focus whilst virtually decimating our 2015 new projects portfolio. Two of the large scale projects we have been working on over the last couple of years have also been turned down by the Secretary of State including our 51% stake in a 5MW Solar proposal with Mably Solar, turned down against the inspectors recommendation, and a 74.9% stake in the 38.5 MW Big Field wind farm with Good Energy which could have been the largest community owned wind energy scheme in mainland UK. The good news is we won't give up on our environment or the sustainablility of our local communities. We have 3 new Solar PV projects under final consideration with a total installed capacity of 430KW, offering a local business, arts centre and school the opportunity to reduce their environemntal impact whilst benefitting from a reduced cost clean electricity supply. We can also now happily announce the acquisition of an exisiting renewable energy generation company that has kept us very busy for the last 7 months.