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What is community energy?
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Ripple Energy
Empowering Consumers and Our Early Partnership
A social enterprise that's made up of 'real people who care about climate change and equality'? That sounds right up our street!
We've been working with Ripple Energy since 2022, and since they started in 2017, they've been shaking up the wind industry—stepping away from the corporate way and making it easier for regular people like us to get involved.
Project overview
Energy/power type
Their goal is to make clean energy ownership accessible to everyone, everywhere. With an ambitious target of having 50% of people owning their own clean, green energy by 2050 – sounds pretty great, right?
About the project
Ripple aims to unlock the climate heroes in all of us by making it easier than ever to reduce our carbon footprints while saving on energy bills! Their first site, a wind farm in South Wales...spoiler alert: a project that we buy energy from!... has been fully operational for 3 years now, providing a whopping £1.2 million in savings on energy bills.
We don't think that big organisations should be the only ones getting access to the cheapest and greenest electricity around!
They've currently got two wind farm projects up and running, and not to brag, we’re buying energy from both of them! Graig Fatha was their original pilot project, co-owned by over 900 members, who all benefit from the 2.5 megawatts of electricity generated each year. In 2024, their second site went live – another wind farm, this time in Ayrshire, Scotland. It’s a colossal project, co-owned by more than 5,000 members, with the capacity to power over 20,000 homes and businesses. No, really... it’s massive!
Big things are coming, with work well underway to build Derril Park, the first consumer-owned solar park in the UK. Their most ambitious project to date is in Whitelaw Bay, Scotland, where they’re planning to build a 14-turbine cluster that could power over 50,000 homes with clean, green, sustainable energy.