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Faced with cuts and lower income for the Community Sector more broadly anyone taking on a new or existing community owned building will have to look very closely at every aspect of their operation to keep overheads to a minimum. Here’s Just Power for Communities CIC’s short guide to what you should consider now before the dark days set in. Installing renewables, such as solar PV will help cut energy bills and create a long term, index linked, income to enable funds to be reinvested in further energy savings or your work.

We're delighted that we'll be at Locality's second convention in Bristol on 6-7 November 2012.

The Convention is a fantastic gathering of members from across Locality's network of development trusts, community enterprises and settlements - I expect there will be a good handful of politicians, decions makers and funders there too, keen to meet people who are creating change in their community.

Last year's was an inspirational event - so we'll be there this year too!

We're delighted to have been asked to help Devon Community Council and the Devon Assciation of Community Buildings at their latest series of Green Hubs Events.

Jonathan Davies will explain how best to plan your solar PV project and will be available to answer your questions. The day will also cover a range of other energy technologies and efficiency issues essential for anyone with responsibility for a community owned building.

Bratton Clovelly  Parish Hall  Tuesday 19^th June 2012

Each quarter the figure for solar PV installations are published. I was delighted to see that community owned installations are identified specifically. I was less happy to see that of the 145,000 Solar PV installations registered from 1 April 2010 to 31 Dec 2011 ONLY 1% were community owned.