Following the UK Government's changes to the feed-in tariff subsidy scheme in April of this year, three organisations have collaborated to fufil the new guidelines related to community solar projects. The new guidelines state that up to two community solar projects could be developed to generate up to 5MW electricity capacity and would receive separate tariffs and share a grid connection point, if one of the projects is owned by a community organisation or charity. Community Solar Projects will now need to submit their proposals for funding from March 2018 onwards.
Following the UK Government's changes to the feed-in tariff subsidy scheme in April of this year, three organisations have collaborated to fufil the new guidelines related to community solar projects. The new guidelines state that up to two community solar projects could be developed to generate up to 5MW electricity capacity and would receive separate tariffs and share a grid connection point, if one of the projects is owned by a community organisation or charity. The first joint ﻿community solar farm is being developed by Public Power Solutions and is a collaboration between Mongoose Energy and Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy.