About us

Community Windpower Ltd was formed in 2001 and is an independent UK based company, working with communities to develop and build windfarms that will provide economic and environmental benefits for whole communities and local schools.

By developing small-scale windfarms we are able to design sites that are sympathetic to local landscapes, which provide locally generated electricity to meet local energy needs.

We employ a small team of professional staff, who are all committed to renewable energy, along with energy efficiency and recycling, to help tackle and reduce the effects of climate change and rising greenhouse gases. This is an important global issue, as every step we make now, will help to protect the world for future generations. As part our of company policy, we have adopted our own Environmental Policy to ensure that all aspects of our work is environmentally friendly and sustainable and consequently contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Following on from this, we have a new policy of pledging to make every community in which we are working, to become 'Carbon Neutral'. So for every windfarm we develop, we will offer to support a 10 year programme to reduce domestic carbon emissions from local homes. We will finance and facilitate the decarbonising of peoples' homes within the immediate local community. Therefore we are providing more than just grant funding, as we will provide education for adults and children, environmental and energy audits, offer advice at drop-in centres, and top-up funding for eco lighting, insulation and heating.

Government targets for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy generation is as follows:

• The UK aims to generate 10% of all electricity from renewable sources by 2010 and 20% by 2020.
• The UK aims to reduce CO 2 emissions by 20% on 1990 levels by 2010.
• The Scottish Executive aims to generate 18% of all electricity from renewable sources by 2010 and 40% by 2020.

Wind energy will make a significant contribution towards the success of meeting these targets and Community Windpower will play an important role, by successfully developing community windfarms in order to help the UK meet its energy targets.