Local Community

To find out more about our work with communities visit our Community webpages.

RWE npower renewables offers a range of community benefit packages at our operating onshore and offshore wind farms, these usually benefit those communities living closest to the site. There are a number of ways of designing and operating these packages which are negotiated locally to meet the specific needs of individual areas. Packages vary, depending on the size, type and geographical make up of local communities.

Community benefit packages have been used to fund a wide variety of activities including community building refurbishments, environmental education programmes, energy efficiency schemes and supporting local groups and organisations.

Energy Efficiency

In 2001, RWE npower renewables, working with Community Energy Plus, implemented a £30,000 energy efficiency advice scheme funded by Bears Down Wind Farm.
Andrew Tanner, Education for Sustainability Consultant, visited 19 local schools throughout Restormel and North Cornwall on behalf of RWE npower renewables to deliver sustainable energy workshops to some 2,000 pupils.

The workshops were interactive, interesting and fun enabling pupils to learn all about energy - where it comes from, how it is used, the environmental consequences of burning fossil fuel and nuclear power stations, renewable energy and ways to conserve electricity.