Advising a major retailer on its partnership with a community energy group and the use of a community benefit society to launch a share offer to raise funds to roll out rooftop solar panels across its real estate portfolio, with the ultimate goal of delivering tangible benefits to the communities local to the stores.
Advising a social enterprise organisation on a suitable structure, involving a community benefit society and several CICs, to deliver energy efficiency projects across the UK by bringing together the public and private sector.
Advising various developers on the formation of CICs to take advantage of legislation permitting two solar projects (one under 'community ownership') to share one MPAN. Advising on the subsequent sale of those CICs.
Advising a number of individuals on their investment into community energy group, Mongoose Energy.
Advising Big60Million, a new type of community benefit energy company created to share the benefits of UK solar farms with as many of the UK’s 60 million residents as possible, on aspects of several of its community bond offers.
Advising The Resilience Centre, a community renewables developer, on the formation of two community benefit societies and related community share offers, to generate investment for the construction and operation of two wind farms.
Advising Resilient Energy Great Dunkilns on a public offer document to raise £1.4 million in minibonds in order to construct and operate a community wind farm and deliver benefits back to the community local to the project.
Advising Westmill Solar Co-operative, a co-operative, on its constitution and on the structuring and implementation of a €5 million public share offer to raise finances to acquire the 5 MW Westmill solar park, including advice on all relevant exemptions from financial services legislation.
Advising an overseas government on proposed new energy sector community benefit regulations, which entailed advising on models used in the UK, several European jurisdictions and the USA. We were then involved in drafting the relevant legislation through to enactment.
Advising utilities, developers, local authorities and community groups on suitable structures through which communities can own and/or benefit from renewable energy projects. Clients include Good Energy, Peel Energy, OPDE, Belectric, RES, Awel Aman Tawe, Gower Power Co-op CIC, Gwent Energy CIC, Aber Valley Community Turbine and Bedlinog Community.