Energy in Your Community helps local people explore the possibilities of community-owned renewable energy together. We can guide you from first interest in renewable energy, through technical fact-finding and how to manage a project if you choose to go ahead. Whatever your community decides, any work is always at your pace, and always with local people in control.
The Community Energy Survey has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. The partnership is now reviewing the survey responses alongside feedback from previous community engagement and technical information. We will share the findings with the community once this work has been completed.
How we're working with your area
This community conversation supports the communities of Peasedown, Wellow and Shoscombe. It builds on ideas first explored in 2022, when local people joined a workshop about community‑owned renewable energy. Thanks to new funding, we have continued exploring these ideas with the community through events, workshops and the Community Energy Survey.
At every stage of the conversation with us, your community stays in control. You:
- learn about what's possible, and what's feasible
- lead on decision-making throughout
This is a community-led process. Local people have helped identify ideas and locations, and community feedback will inform decisions about whether any of these should be explored further.
Progress so far
We have made good progress in our conversations with this area so far:
- In 2022, the Centre for Sustainable Energy ran a pilot workshop and survey in Peasedown and Wellow.
- Local residents shared ideas for thirteen potential locations that might be worth exploring to see if any were suitable for renewable energy: eight for wind, and five for solar
- You can read more in the 2022 Renewable Energy Conversation Findings report
- In 2025 we returned to Peasedown, Wellow and Shoscombe as funding is now available to continue our conversations, if the community agrees.
- On Saturday 8 November 2025, we held a Community Energy Open Day for Peasedown, Wellow & Shoscombe. The event invited residents to discuss whether or not any of the locations considered in 2022, or community-owned renewables more generally, were supported for further consideration.
- On Wednesday 25 February 2026, we held a Community Energy Forum. At the Forum, residents reviewed opinions expressed at previous events, looked at locations for local wind and solar, in the light of new technical information, and identified a shortlist of potential locations for wider community discussion. Read the Community Energy Forum summary report.
- Between 26 May and 15 July 2026, a Community Energy Survey was open to residents to feedback on the engagement process and shortlist.
- The Community Energy Survey closed on 15 July 2026.
The next stage of the community conversation
The Community Energy Survey has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part.
We’re now reviewing the survey responses alongside feedback gathered through previous workshops, community events and earlier engagement. We’ll also consider technical information, alongside environmental, landscape and planning considerations, to help us understand whether any opportunities are appropriate to explore further.
This work will help us understand whether there is broad community interest in continuing to explore community-owned renewable energy in Peasedown, Wellow and Shoscombe.
What happens next
- The Community Energy Survey has now closed
- We'll review feedback from the survey, community events and previous engagement activities together.
- We’ll share a summary of the findings with local communities and parish councils.
- If there is support to continue the conversation around community energy, a workshop will be held in the Autumn.
- Any future proposal would require further community discussion, technical assessment and any relevant planning and regulatory processes.
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