WREN

WREN was founded in 2011 by a group of Wadebridge people wanting to do more for their town, who envisaged renewable energy as a community asset, enabling much more of the energy spend of the town to remain in the area, rather than transferring up country and overseas to the big energy suppliers. We set a target of creating community ownership of enough renewable energy production to supply 50% of Wadebridge's energy needs by 2015 and 100% by 2020. Sadly, we were not able to achieve those targets, as the electricity grid and network in Cornwall became full, making grid connection impossibly expensive. This put an end to our plans for a Megawatt-scale solar farm... In 2019, we began a new project, Energy Equality, funded by RCEF, the Rural Community Energy Fund, to investigate the feasibility of peer-to-peer trading as a means of using community energy to encourage further investment in rooftop solar PV and at the same contribute to alleviating fuel poverty. We also began taking a more..

Primary location: Wadebridge United Kingdom