Join Britain’s first consumer-owned solar park

Ripple Energy made a few waves a couple of years ago with a consumer-owned wind farm, the first of its kind in Britain. This month they have launched a solar park along similar lines, and you can now buy into the scheme. Its the first shared solar scheme in the UK, though it has been done elsewhere before – I wrote about this one in Lithuania a couple of years ago.

Usually community energy involves profit-sharing. You buy into a cooperative, and you get a share of the revenues as the wind fa...