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In Community Energy, Offshore wind, Shared Ownership

Community Ownership at Scale: Why This Moment Matters

A row of offshore wind turbines extending across open water under a blue sky
Change often becomes possible not because one thing shifts, but because several things finally align. The UK’s clean energy transition is at one of those moments. The urgency of net zero is widely understood. The scale of infrastructure we need to build is becoming unavoidable. And there is a growing public conversation about who owns, shapes, and benefits from the…
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In Community Finance, Green Investments, Net Zero, Offshore wind, Renewable Energy, Uncategorised

Project Collette: A Blueprint for Larger Scale Community-Led Investment

Unlocking Community-Led Finance for Gigawatt-Scale Renewables The UK faces a fundamental challenge in financing its transition to clean energy: how can communities genuinely own part of the clean-energy transition, not just symbolically but in ways that give them real influence and long-term economic benefit? The need for new models of ownership and participation has become increasingly urgent. Add to this…
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In Green Investments, grid, Net Zero

The Great Grid Upgrade: From Pylons to People Power

Harker the Herald: Cumbria’s Front Line in the Great Grid Upgrade and How this Can Help Project Collette The Great Grid Upgrade, launched in 2023, while controversial, represents the most ambitious overhaul of Britain's electricity network since the 1950s, when Churchill's government built the first 400 kV "Supergrid" to connect coal and nuclear plants across the countryside. Image source: Utility…
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