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Moorhouse Lane Solar Array

The story of a community energy project

Moorhouse Solar Array

7200 x 255W BenQ panels = 1,836 kWp

Annual yield 960 kW/kWp = 1.76MWh

Total cost £2.012M

Annual income = £187,500

11 acres Grade 3 agricultural land

Timeline to Moorhouse solar array (1)2010

Community energy

workshop withThe Converging

World

2009Transition Portishead

set up

April 2011Low Carbon

Gordanoestablished

Nov 2011First 6

community roof

schemes abandoned

Mar 2012£100,000

LEAFfunding

2012Partnership

formedwith BWCE

Timeline to Moorhouse solar array (2)

Nov 2013NS planners

reject300kW project(Green Belt)

2013BWCE support

300kW solar project

Jan 2014BWCE offer

LCGMoorhouse

Project

May 2014Moorhouse receives planning consent

Jun 2014£2.2M

communityShare offer

for Moorhouse

Sep 2014£2.2M raised

Sep 2014Solarsense

awardedcontract

April 2015Moorhouse

fully operational

Moorhouse share offerWho invested(1)?

71%

29%

Moorhouse share offerWho invested(2)?

29%30%

26%

13%

Moorhouse share offerWho invested (3)?

Moorhouse share offerHow did the money come in?

25% wk6

50% wk10

75% wk11

100% wk12

EIS Approved

wk5 £600,000 Underwriting

Facilitywk8

Share offer

Extendedwk8

388 Members

£5,700Average

investment

Ham Lane share offer

25% wk4

50% wk5

75% wk7

100% wk7

EIS Approved

wk3 175 investors85 new members£5,600 average

investment

The Moorhouse project (1)Jul 2013

1st Planning application

by ORTA solarwithdrawn

Jan 2014BWCE agree

Heads of Termswith ORTA

Jan 2014BWCE offer project

To LCG

May 2014Planning consent

Granted –BWCE purchase

Scheme from ORTA

29 Nov 20132nd Planning application

by ORTA solar

Jun 2014LCG launches

share offer for £2.2MWith BWCE support

Jul 2014Solarsense chosen

as contractor

SEP 2014Share offer successful

LCG puchases scheme

from BWCE

Oct 2014EPC contract agreed

with Solarsense

The Moorhouse project (2)

Oct 2014Delays due to

Pipeline crossing,Unexploded bomb

survey

Dec 2014Solarmax inverter

manufacturer ceasesTrading - 8 week

delayFIT deadline missed

Apr 2015Site fully operational

Mar 2015G59 test complete-

Site connected to grid

Nov 2014Site works start

Feb 2015New Lti Inverters

on site

May 2015Mayor of Bristol

George FergusonLaunches solar array

July 2015Final performance

testing

Moorhouse today

860,000 kWh

450 tonnes

£130,000

Generation

Carbon saved

Income