AWEL AMAN TAWE

Awel Aman Tawe (AAT) is a community energy charity which has been operating for 21 years. Our prime drivers are tackling climate change, job creation, retaining wealth in the Welsh economy and engaging people in energy. We have a strong reputation for delivery of education, arts and engagement. We have set up two coops and currently use Egni as our main website: Awel Co-op, is a 4.7MW community wind farm which was commissioned in Jan 2017. It was funded by a 5.25m loan from Triodos Bank and a 3m community share offer. The annual turnover is 1.2m. www.awel.coop Egni Co-op develops rooftop solar on schools, businesses and community buildings. It has installed 4.4MWp on 88 sites in Wales. Egni has raised 4m from a community share offer and 2.12m from the Development Bank of Wales to fund the installs which are ongoing. The turnover is 460k. We save our sites more than 100k in electricity costs/year and 1,000 tonnes in carbon emissions. All surplus goes into energy education proje...