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We are delighted to announce that our planning application for a wind turbine in Bishop’s castle has been approved!  This is a massive step forward for the Heat & Wind project.  We’d like to thank all those who have supported the project, including Lightfoot and the Town Council.

Meanwhile work continues on the heat network studies and a report will be available soon.

We will  be at several events over the Summer, including  the Shrewsbury URC Green Day on  June 28^th and the Ludlow Green Fair on Sun July 13^th do come and have a chat with us..

Our 2025 Share Offer is now open!  This is your chance to invest in a cleaner, greener future.  The funds raised will enable us to secure the purchase of Twemlows solar farm, enhance our Community benefit Fund and increase our membership.

For more details see http://www.stcenergy.org.uk/investors-home

We are very nearly ready to launch our second share offer. This will enable us to carry out the next phase of securing the Twemlows solar farm, to pay out more from our Community Benefit Fund and increase our membership.  If you missed out last time, here’s your chance!  If you invested last time, then you could always invest some more. We are targeting a 6% return on investment and we are just about to pay out 6% to our existing investor members for 2024.

We hope to raise around £500,000 this time and more would be useful, so please help by investing and/or spreading the word, thank you.

for our full may newsletter see https://stcenergy.org.uk/newsletter/

Festival Drayton Centre, 10-1pm

We would love to see you there.

For more details and the share offer document see www.stcenergy.org.uk (coming soon).

We will also be running some Share Offer webinars, on Thurs 19^th June and Wed 16^th July. To find out more  contact our secretary Howard via secretary@stcenergy.org.uk or check out our website..

We will also be holding a similar event at the Orbit in Wellington in July

and we will be at several events over the Summer, including Wellington Mid Summer Fayre on June 14^th, the Shrewsbury URC Green Day on  June 28^th and the Ludlow Green Fair on Sun July 13^th.

by Zoom

Please put the date in your diary.  We would welcome more people on the STCE board, we have much to do and many hands make light work. If you would consider joining the board, please contact Howard as above.  The AGM papers & zoom link will be sent out nearer the time.

All the STCE investor members should receive an email from Sharenergy requesting their bank details so we can process our first interest payment.  If you’re a investor member and you’ve had the email please respond asap, if you haven’t had it please check your spam folder.

Our Bishop’s Castle wind turbine application is now live on Shropshire Council’s portal.  The turbine is an essential part of the Bishop’s Castle heat & wind project, each unit of energy out of the wind will be turned into two or three units of heat replacing oil boilers! This is one of the first new wind turbine applications in England since the planning guidance was changed, and it may well be the first.  Messages of support are most welcome.. see https:/pa.shropshire.gov/online-applications  ref 25/00177/FUL.  The consultation runs to Feb 21st.

 

We’re holding a second litter pick session along with some hedgerow maintenance work on Sat Nov 30th.  SY13 2HA, (just off A41 south of Prees Heath roundabout).  Please join us and hear more about our plans for the solar farm and other projects.

If you’re interested in joining us please email  info@stcenergy.org.uk so we can get a feel for numbers, thankyou. We hope to have lunch together afterwards.

The rest of our November newsletter is here https://stcenergy.org.uk/newsletter/

A Huge Boost for Community Energy – Are We Ready?

The new Government has promised ‘the biggest expansion in Community Energy in British history’.  GB Energy is poised to offer finance to Local Authorities and low interest loans to community-based energy schemes.  This is very exciting, but the question is – are we ready for this?  STCE is in a strong position with the ownership of Twemlows and the income it generates, at our last AGM we had a good turnout with 16 people and we had 12 attend our litter pick in July.  However, the five existing Directors are fully engaged keeping the society going, including managing Twemlows and the grant funds for the Bishop’s Castle project plus helping to run Community Energy Together.  We could really do with some added input to take advantage of new opportunities arising, please fill in our short survey here.. here

ps our full Sept 24 newsletter is available here