{"id":65484,"date":"2025-05-08T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=65484"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:44:13","slug":"campaigners-call-for-greater-awareness-for-community-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/campaigners-call-for-greater-awareness-for-community-energy-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners call for greater awareness for Community Energy Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Environmental Groups in Sheffield are campaigning for greater awareness around Community Energy Projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield Renewables are a Community energy group who fund, develop, own and operate Renewable energy schemes which are financed through investment from members of the community, with profits being reinvested for new work and benefiting people locally and globally through their Community Benefit Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They currently have projects at sites including Attercliffe Police Station, Swinton Fitzwilliam school, and Our Cow Molly, and are calling on Sheffield City Council for greater support, both in developing renewable energy projects and raising awareness of community energy projects to the people of South Yorkshire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Berry from Sheffield Renewables told us more about why community energy projects matter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield Renewables Projects\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXLWpksuvX8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners are calling for more awareness around Community Energy Projects in Sheffield, saying they provide a cheaper and greener alternative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":65496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,85],"tags":[260,15,396,38,131],"class_list":["post-65484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story-2","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sheffield","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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