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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 Community Energy, Community Finance, Net Zero, Offshore wind, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Finance

Cumbria’s Offshore Wind Potential

Reaching net zero by 2050 is “narrow but still achievable” because of the staggering growth in clean energy technologies, so says the IEA. IEA’s recent updated Net Zero Pathway calls for a tripling of global renewable power capacity (in particular, solar and offshore wind), a doubling of energy efficiency improvements, a steep rise in EV cars and heat pumps and large reductions of methane in…
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In Green Investments, Net Zero, Offshore wind, Renewable Energy

Cumbria is One Place that Could Really Benefit from a Green Recovery Plan

By Nick Robins, professor in practice for sustainable finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, and Ciara Shannon, director of EdenWorksGreen. Originally posted on March 21, 2021. The Walney Extension is one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms and is 15 km or so off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Photo Credit: BBC/ PA Cumbria is a county with a…
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