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Greater Manchester Community Renewables is delighted to invite you to invest in our new community share offer to fund solar panels on four primary schools in Salford. This will help them save money on their bills, reduce carbon emissions and help the children learn about energy and climate change –…

New project could save residents hundreds of pounds a year while supporting local renewable energy schemes A typical home can save over £300 a year switching to the cheapest green tariff The scheme will also raise money for local renewable energy projects Greater Manchester Community Renewables is one of four…

GMCR is planning a further round of solar installations for summer 2018. Before we can launch a community share offer to raise money for more solar installations, we need to check that the sites are suitable e.g. by commissioning a structural survey of the roof, and doing legal due diligence…

Solar Performance Exciting News! Generation meter readings taken towards the end of the September 2017 show total solar generation of over 100 MWh since installation across the four sites! Other news We spoke at a European Energy Democracy convergence about how we used community shares to raise funds to install…

Fiddlers Lane It’s official! The solar installation on the roof of Fiddlers Lane Primary School now belongs to GMCR. You may recall that GMCR lent Moss Community Energy the money to install solar panels at Fiddlers Lane Primary School. It was always their intention to transfer the site to GMCR…

Greater Manchester Community Renewables Ltd is a volunteer led community business which has installed solar panels on three schools and a community centre in our area. We help our site partners save money on their energy bills, whilst also reducing carbon emissions and generating a community fund from our profits…

Just a quick update for you all on progress so far this year… Operations As you may recall, our three school sites were all switched on and our solar arrays were generating last year, but additional work was required to upgrade the substation at The Fuse before we could switch…

GMCR directors, members and volunteers were joined by staff, children and parents from both Fiddlers Lane Primary School and Irlam Primary School, and the Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett, for the opening ceremony of our Irlam sites earlier this week. Paul Dennett, Mayor of Salford, with pupils from Irlam Primary…

The dark winter nights may be drawing in, but there will be a slice of sunshine at the official launch of a community solar scheme for two Salford schools. On Monday 21st November at 12:30pm at Hamilton Davies House on Liverpool Road, Irlam, the Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett, will…

We have completed four solar installations over the summer holidays and have submitted the Feed-in Tariff applications. Fiddlers Lane Primary School – installed in partnership with Moss Community Energy Primrose Hill Primary School, Salford Irlam Primary School The Fuse, Partington

Over the summer holidays our installers have been hard at work installing panels. Here are some photos of the first installations:

After a hectic few weeks of negotiations, we finally got the leases signed on Friday! This was a crucial step as it meant that we could issue shares and start spending the money that our members have invested. We wasted no time in making the first payment to our installer,…