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Vote for Portobello & Leith Community Wind Energy Project

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  • Started 13 years ago by crowriver
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  1. crowriver
    Member

    SCOTTISH COMMUNITY GROUPS MAKE ST ANDREW’S DAY APPEAL FOR SUPPORT

    Two Scottish community renewable energy projects have teamed up to make a St. Andrew’s Day appeal for support. The two projects – one from Edinburgh and the other from Strathpeffer in the Highlands – have
chosen Scotland’s national day to appeal for online votes to help them
 win funding from the Energyshare fund.

    Portobello & Leith Community Wind Energy Project

    Portobello & Leith Community Wind Energy Project would see a community-owned wind turbine built at Seafield in Edinburgh. In 2010, 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 in Edinburgh. If successful, this will be the first community-owned large scale wind project in a UK city.

    http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2011/11/30/scottish-community-groups-make-st-andrews-day-appeal-for-support/

    You can vote here:

    http://www.energyshare.com/portobello-leith-community-wind-energy-project

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. DaveC
    Member

    Done.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    "
    It's all over - congratulations to Hexham River Hydro, Portobello & Leith, North Devon Hospice, and Shrewsbury Hydro

    "

    https://twitter.com/energyshare/status/143013283316760576

    Clearly due to swinging CCE voters.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I was swung by Twitter. I thought if I voted it might make the bombardment of retweets go away!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. crowriver
    Member

    We won! Thank you so much for your support
    WRITTEN BY: CHAS-BOOTH | ADDED: 03/12/2011

    The votes are counted, the results are in and...
    We won!

    The final few hours of the campaign left nerves shredded, as we pulled ahead of our nearest rival and then they started to close the gap again. Would they overtake us before the deadline? In the end we held out, and finished just over 50 votes ahead of our nearest rival. A tiny margin considering more than 30,000 votes were cast in total, but enough to ensure we won energyshare funding in the 'medium' category.

    We're delighted of course, but we couldn't have done it without your support. So thank you so much for everything you've done: every vote really counted and every vote helped helped move our community renewables vision for Portobello and Leith a step closer to reality.

    The funding will help us to complete the feasibility work including the wind monitoring and to take the project through to planning application stage, which we expect to happen during 2012. Be sure to watch this space for project updates from time to time.

    Please also spare a thought for our nearest rivals, Old Basing Scout Hut, who despite winning over 30% of the vote in our category, and having the second highest number of votes of all the energyshare projects, walked away without any funding. Their project is a really inspiring one, and we wish them every success in turning it into reality.

    Thank you once again for your support.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    I presume from reading the above that the Portobello & Leith project got the highest number of votes of all the projects. They needed them too to beat the Scouts!

    Posted 13 years ago #

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