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Community wind turbine seeks votes |
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1 Dec 2011, 7:40 PM
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Greener Leith, an Edinburgh green group is in the final short list for a grant of up to £80,000 for a proposed Community Wind Turbine project. If the project gets the green light it won't just generate green energy, it will also generate a surplus of hundreds of thousands of pounds over its lifetime, which will be used to support community projects in Edinburgh.
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In 2010, two community-led not-for-private-profit groups, PEDAL (Portobello Transition Town) and Greener Leith, started working together to explore the feasibility of a wind turbine on land at Seafield Waste Water Treatment Works, Marine Esplanade, Edinburgh. If they are successful, this will be the first community-owned large scale wind project in a UK city.
The aims of the project are to:
- Generate enough renewable energy to power the equivalent of 300-1300 homes each year;
- Reduce CO2 equivalent emmissions from electricity generation by between 400 and 2000 tonnes per year (dependent on actual wind resource and capacity of turbine installed) over the lifetime of the installation (25 years);
- Generate an independent income stream that will be distributed to local not-for-private-profit groups for projects focussed on sustainable development. The funds will be disbursed on an open, transparent and inclusive basis.
- Increase local awareness of issues relating to energy and the potential for generating clean energy using local renewable resources, and provide learning and inspiration for other communities to undertake similar projects;
- Enable school pupils to learn more about sustainable energy by using the wind turbine as a teaching tool within the curriculum. We have strong links with local primary and secondary schools.
Portobello & Leith Community Wind Energy Project has the potential to make a big difference to carbon emissions, generate funding for local sustainable development projects, and provide education and inspiration to many others around energy issues right on the coast of Scotland's capital city!
To gain the £80,000 the group has to win an online public vote - and they're currently running a very close second. Therefore, the group wants help to get some more votes.
Here's what you can do to help. Go to the web address below and vote for Greener Leith. Although you have to register on the Energyshare website, the whole process should only take a couple of minutes, and you can opt out of any further communications.
http://www.energyshare.com/portobello-leith-community-wind-energy-project/
Second, once you've voted, please share the above instructions with your own friends and networks - the voting closes on 3 December.
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