This Valentine’s season, let’s fall (back) in love with community wind!

The Clean Power Mission is one of this government’s flagship policies to make progress on Net Zero and climate action, but it’s becoming clear that a crucial part of the puzzle is missing: onshore wind in England.

The first community energy projects were wind, developed by people who poured their love into turbines to generate clean power and keep profits local. However, many were left disappointed by restrictive policies and planning barriers. With renewed governmental support for community wind, it’s time to rekindle the romance!

We will be hearing from:

• Dave Green, Development Manager at Sharenergy
• Stefan Haselwimmer, creator of VoteWind.org
• Als Parker, Director at Greenstoker
• Louise Daniels, Head of External Affairs at Thrive Renewables

Join us to further understand the potential of community-owned onshore wind to deliver clean energy, local resilience, and community benefit. At a time when we need practical climate solutions more than ever, this event brings together people who are already making community wind happen and invites you to be part of what comes next.

We will cover:

• Why is wind needed? And how much do we need?
• New tools to map and visualise wind power potential (get on the apps to find and match with your windiest sites!).
• What size wind projects work?
• Repowering: give an existing wind site a glow-up.
• The launch of our Community Wind Working Group, a new space for people interested in developing, supporting, or learning more about community-owned wind projects.

Let’s fall head over heels for wind; it’s a match made in megawatts!

The Energy Learning Network:
This event is brought to you by the Energy learning Network, a UK-wide collaboration to boost the skills, confidence, and capability of the community energy sector. It is a partnership between CEE, Ashden, Centre for Sustainable Energy, Community Energy Scotland, Community Energy Wales, and Northern Ireland’s Action Renewables. The programme is made possible thanks to four years of funding totalling £1.5 million from the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund.