Business & Economics Resources

Report - Communities: Transforming the energy market through local energy production

Paul McIntosh — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:32:42 +0000

Case studies

Research

Think tank ResPublica has published a report urging the government to work more closely to promote community renewable energy schemes. The green paper, 'Re-energising our Communities: Transforming the energy market through local energy production', sets out a series of 10 recommendations for government to increase the number of community-led microgeneration schemes, such as solar installations and small wind farms.

http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/sites/sustainabledorset.org.uk/files/publications/Report_Sets_Out_Recommendations_for_Increasing_Community_Microgeneration%5B1%5D.pdf

Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy: Government and Businesses Working Together

Paul McIntosh — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:19 +0000

Research

Policy updates

The Government has published a document that outlines a number of actions towards achieving a green economy and boosting economic growth in the UK.

Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy: Government and Businesses Working Together outlines a number of planned actions towards achieving a green economy and boosting economic growth in the UK.

The document maps out the Government's plans, through to 2020, in the following areas:

Funding Revolution - A guide to establishing and running a low-carbon community revolving fund

Paul McIntosh — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:08:06 +0000

Research

Funding models

Structures and legal

Funding revolution is a written guide to establishing and running low-carbon community revolving funds. Forum for the Future wrote it in collaboration with Bates Wells & Braithwaite solicitors (BWB) to show communities how they can use smart finance to kick-start carbon saving projects like these in their area and make their investments go further.

Ten steps for community organisations to install solar power plants on the roofs of local public buildings

Paul McIntosh — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:15:29 +0000

Research

Technology

Funding models

Planning

Toolkits

Community solar power plants or “Buergersolar” as they are known in Germany, have helped many local German communities on the way to implementing their own local carbon reduction strategies with the aim of becoming self-sufficient in renewable energy. There are numerous case studies on the net of successful German community PV projects managed by locally formed organisations.

http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/sites/sustainabledorset.org.uk/files/publications/Community%20PV%20info%20leaflet.pdf

Dorset Community Energy Conference - 2010

Paul McIntosh — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:42:13 +0000

Case studies

Past events and presentations

Funding models

Structures and legal

Community Sustainable Energy Conference 17th April 2010

The Dorset Energy Group held a successful Community Sustainable Energy Conference in the Dorford Centre, Dorchester, on Saturday 17th April 2010, which was attended by 50 people.

The conference was organised to facilitate the development of community scale sustainable energy projects in Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole.

Examples of community projects could be:

Community Energy Online - Resource

Paul McIntosh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:35:51 +0000

Networks / sites with multiple resources

This resource has been developed to support local authorities and community groups in their role as initiators, supporters and developers of local low carbon and renewable energy projects.

Communityshares / investment /structures - factsheets

Paul McIntosh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:06:25 +0000

Structures and legal

Toolkits

Selection of Factsheets by Communityshares on
Factsheet 1: What is community investment?
Factsheet 2: People and communities
Factsheet 3: Shares and bonds
Factsheet 4: Financial promotions
Factsheet 5: Capital finance
Factsheet 6: Legal structures
Factsheet 7: Feasibility studies

Investing in Community Shares

Paul McIntosh — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:54:11 +0000

Structures and legal

Toolkits

This guide explains what community shares are, and will help inform your decision on whether you should invest in a community share offer. It focuses exclusively on organisations that are registered with the Financial Services Authority as co-operatives or community benefit societies, which are subject to different legislation from companies, and have their own unique form of shares. At the back of the guide there is an A to Z of technical terms that you might
come across in a share offer document. The guide has been produced by the Community Shares programme, a government-funded project working with ten community organisations in England, all of which are using community shares to finance their