Alan Simpson MP and over 70 shareholders and suppliers came to Hockerton to celebrate the official opening of our community-owned wind turbine. It was a stunning day, with plenty of wind and solar power, and inspired plenty of ideas of how to spend the income from the turbine – the most popular being a foot and cycle path to Southwell, a village green and playground, and energy audits of local homes – a good mix of social, environmental and economic options for sustainable Hockerton.
As well as Alan, one of the main campaigners for the new feed-in tariff, we were joined by a small film unit from the Energy Saving Trust who are covering the project for their Green Communities site to show what communities can achieve.
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