Sun 21 Jun: Southill Solar Summer Solstice Open Day
Southill Community Energy - a decade of local renewable energy generation and nature recovery
It’s over thirteen years ago that a handful of us started thinking ‘how about generating local renewable energy from our own community-owned solar power station’…
Today Southill Solar has become a model in how to develop solar farms sympathetic to both the demands of renewable energy generation and improving nature recovery. We have hosted visits from CPRE and Natural England who both cite Southill as an exemplar for solar development and we feature in Cotswold National Landscape’s Pathway to Net Zero strategy.
To celebrate these achievements and our 10-year anniversary, Southill Community Energy will be opening its gates on the day and evening of the Summer Solstice, Sunday 21st June. Join us to see the wildflower meadows at their peak, identify flora and fauna, and on the previous evening, Saturday, at dusk, take part in our big moth count, after which Anne Miller will lead a group to witness the magic of glow worms - our very own midsummer's night dream! If we're not too exhausted by Sunday evening we hope to lead a second group to witness the glow worms too!
Gates open at 10.30am, bring refreshments and a picnic, gates closing at 3.30pm. With limited parking to the lay-by there will be a shuttle minibus service, full details will be confirmed soon on https://southillcommunityenergy.coop.
