Local Community

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.

In association with the Hameldon Hill Wind farm RWE, npower renewables and education partner CREATE (Centre for Research, Education and Training in Energy) contacted primary and secondary schools in the immediate area around Hameldon Hill, to invite them to take part in a programme of workshops aimed at educating young people about climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Crawshawbooth Primary School 

Early in 2007 three primary schools and two secondary schools took part in the programme of workshops which were developed in line with the requirements of National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3.

Stonefold Primary School 
The workshops involved pupils taking part in activities which included performing short plays about how climate change is affecting children around the world, investigating the power of the wind and the sun as renewable energy sources and carrying out energy audits of their school buildings.