The Agri PV Networking event was a success.What a great day with a real buzz in the room. Farmers, energy experts and academics all supporting the idea of food growing within solar farms. (Agri PV) The two presentations can be […]
Community Energy
Annual report 2015/16
Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM.
Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 315,071 kWh of zero carbon power and our PV arrays produced 50,363 kWh, displacing the emission of 168 tonnes of carbon dioxide from fossil fuelled power stations
Economic: 7% interest was paid on share capital held in June 2016, the Society invested in two new PV arrays, and provided 44 days of paid work for local residents.
Social: £1,972 was set aside for the village’s sustainability projects; the offer of £200 for energy and water saving measures remained open for new applicants from the parish; a subsidy was offered for a local organic food box scheme.
There are now 81 members of the Society. If you are interested in joining, as and when shares are made available for transfer by existing members, please contact us. Please note priority will be given to local residents.
AGM 2016 & community biogas talk
Our AGM for members is at 4pm on 10 September at Hockerton Housing Project.
This will be followed at 5pm by a talk open to all on the potential for community biogas, led by Davide Poggio who is a research fellow working with the ISABEL project – an EU-backed initiative to promote, support and develop community biogas.
He will outline the vision of ISABEL as a platform for connecting local initiatives and promoting sharing and learning in order to co-design innovative solutions for sustainable communities. He will also give an overview of the possible technical solutions which enable the local treatment of biowaste and the production of energy and food.
We will be interested to hear the potential, and how the balance is made so that waste is usefully repurposed, without the undesirable consequence of incentivising its production.
If you are not a member of Sustainable Hockerton but would like to attend the talk, please contact us.
Managing our members’ investment
At our AGM in 2016 we asked members to consider whether or not they will want to withdraw their investment after 15 years, an offer that was set out in our Invitation to Invest. The Directors asked this question as […]
Energy efficiency
Sustainable Hockerton has the broad aim to help the parish become sustainable, coupled with the more specific objective of reducing carbon emissions. The cheapest way to do that is to make changes in behaviour or install measures that maintain comfort whilst cutting energy use.
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£200 for every Hockerton home and business
After the great response to the last round of funding, Sustainable Hockerton is pleased to announce a new offer of £200 to every household and business in the parish for energy and water saving measures installed by 31 March. If you want ideas, […]
Community Energy
We are actively looking for partners to install PV systems. A typical arrangement would be for Sustainable Hockerton to buy the panels and install them on a community/business/individual’s roof. The roof owner would receive cheap energy from the panels as […]
Community solar PV: moving fast to keep FiT
SHOCK is racing against the clock to install solar PV before the Government cuts the Feed-in Tariff.
Pioneering peer-to-peer energy market
Sustainable Hockerton is one of the pioneering small scale generators who have joined a new marketplace to trade locally generated energy. Piclo gives us a chance to sell locally, and the service gives local businesses a chance to take control […]
Annual report 2014/15
Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 270,637 kWh of zero carbon power and our new PV array produced 45,240kWh, displacing the emission of 145 tonnes of […]
New energy mentoring service
We’re delighted our project managers at Hockerton Housing Project are joining a new mentoring service for Community Energy projects as a Peer Mentor, thanks to a new project funded by the Esmee Fairburn Foundation. Like the other Peer Mentors across […]
Annual report 2013/14
Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 298,898 kWh of zero carbon power and our new PV array produced 1,103kWh, displacing the emission of 133.64 […]
More renewables, less risk
Today our new 50kW solar PV system was commissioned, sited on the roofs of (free-range) chicken sheds at a local farm. We funded the system through a mix of the Society’s reserves and loans from members, with the former to […]
Free community energy course
Do you want to help improve the energy efficiency of homes in your area? Are people in your community struggling to pay their energy bills? Confused by the Green Deal and ECO? Not sure what other forms of funding are […]
Need a community energy expert to mentor your project?
Our project managers at Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) are looking for community energy projects who want to learn from our experience, to take advantage of a new Mentoring Fund. The scheme is only open to applicants until 12 December 2013, but successful […]
Annual report 2012/13
Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 281,212 kWh of zero carbon power, displacing the emission of 146.33 tonnes of carbon dioxide from fossil fuelled […]
Community wind energy gets a boost!
South Brent’s community-owned Vestas V27 started production last week and 10th September sees 2355kWh on the clock. It is great to this project go live, as it is very similar to our local Sustainable Hockerton turbine, which is also fully community […]
Retrofit for the Future and the missed opportunity of offsite renewable energy
If this property’s share in our community-owned wind turbine were taken into account, it would have the lowest energy use and CO2 emissions of all properties in the recent Government-backed Retrofit Revealed report. The Government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded the Retrofit for the […]
Community wind turbine pays dividends
The Sustainable Hockerton community-owned wind turbine continues to turn a profit! Members of the Society have received payments of 8% interest and there is enough money left in the bank to donate £10,000 to the village to pursue sustainability and […]
Ready for the summer sun
The residents of Hockerton Housing Project have installed another community-owned solar PV system. This will expand the PV generation by the co-operative from 7.6kW to 13.6kW and make the site a net exporter of electricity. We decided to install additional […]