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Five Yorkshire-based organisations enrolled in community energy feasibility pilot, funded by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
FeasiblyFeasibly has filled all five places on its six-month pilot programme, funded by Mayor David Skaith and the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority. The programme puts the same site screening and grid analysis used by utility-scale developers into the hands of smaller, community-led projects.
Councils, community energy groups, faith organisations and consultancies across York and North Yorkshire will use Feasibly to assess sites, understand grid constraints and build the case for renewable energy in their areas.
The pilot gives each organisation site-specific data and grid analysis upfront, cutting the cost and time it takes to know whether a project is feasible.
Pilot participants
- The Church of England (pioneered by the Diocese of Leeds working with other Dioceses in the region), assessing renewable energy potential across its North East and Yorkshire cluster
- Environmental Smart, conducting light-touch feasibility analyses of community energy projects across Yorkshire
- Malton Town Council, exploring solar panel options for the council building
- Tockwith Community Energy, developing community-owned renewables in Tockwith
- A faith organisation operating across the North East
Assessing solar, battery and grid capacity across 1,788 sites
The pilots are already producing results at a scale that would not be practical with manual desk studies.
In only 8 weeks, the Church of England’s North East and Yorkshire cluster has used Feasibly to remotely assess 1,788 places for rooftop solar and battery storage potential and 82 places for community battery storage. It also assessed 35 parcels of land, ranging from 0.07 to 17 hectares, for technologies including community-scale hydro, small-scale battery storage, ground-mounted solar and wind, and mapped over 90 funder catchments.
“Feasibly brought together large and very complex data sets to give us an understanding of the constraints and opportunities associated with transitioning to Net Zero in places across the cluster. It pulled data from a range of sources and gave us a clear picture of where to focus.”
- Rosalind Cooper, Net Zero Carbon Programme Manager, Church of England, Diocese of Leeds
Other pilot participants are using the platform to screen sites, check grid capacity and substation locations, and prepare evidence for community energy funding and grant applications.
“I’ve been using Feasibly mainly for preparing grant applications and it has been an invaluable tool in understanding grid constraints and substation locations across the various projects we are working on… I have also been able to use it in real time during video calls to check substation data.”
- Russell Hoare, Director, Environmental Smart
Free community energy feasibility support still available in York and North Yorkshire
The six-month pilot is full, but Feasibly can still help this year. They are providing one-month fully funded feasibility support for groups based in York and North Yorkshire.
If your group wants to understand whether a renewable energy project could work, book a meeting with Anna here.
About Feasibly
Feasibly is a North East-based organisation making it faster and easier to get renewable energy projects off the ground. Developing a site usually means costly, time-consuming technical groundwork before you know if it is viable and can connect to the grid.
Feasibly helps renewable energy developers screen sites and assess grid connection viability at portfolio scale, and supports councils and community energy groups to do the same for local projects.
Developing at utility scale? See how Feasibly works here.
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