In line with other community energy groups, Pomona has a small fund to support local community initiatives, ideally ones in line with our objectives of reducing carbon emissions and increasing social cohesion. During the summer and autumn of 2020 the Directors approved two applications – one to pay for an energy audit for Llanwarne Village Hall – enabling it to help unlock further funding for an energy retrofit – and one to support paid admin for Herefordshire Green Network, which does valuable work connecting and supporting low carbon/environmental actions across the county. Like many organisations, it has found that regular funding sources have been diverted to Covid emergency, and funding to simply keep going has been hard to come by. (N.b. two Pomona Solar directors are on the Steering Group of HGN so made declarations of interest when the latter application was made.)

The Directors welcome applications from other suitable projects in Herefordshire.

Want to know more about what’s happening with community energy? Download the latest report from the Community Energy England website.

All members should have heard from Sharenergy that we’re running our 2020 AGM on Zoom. Do join in – no need to travel. (Sorry, we’ll all have to supply our own drinks and snacks this year – but we hope to see you all for our famous buffet next time!) But if you can’t take part, PLEASE DO SEND IN YOUR VOTES as we do want to know we have your support – thanks.

284,198 kWh of beautiful clean electricity generated during 2019!

This year’s AGM takes place on Tuesday 18 July. Join us for a site visit at 5,30pm, buffet+drinks at 6.30pm – with a talk on Herefordshire’s clean energy strategy and the AGM itself at 7.15pm.

More information HERE

generated at the Pomona site in 2016!

This year’s AGM will take place in the early evening of TUESDAY 18 JULY 2017, at the same venue as last year, the Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington – further information to follow in due course but please make a note in your diaries. We would love to see as many Pomona members and other interested local people as possible.

We are pleased to announce that the installation of solar panels, including the additional 50kW added as a extension, are now all installed, commissioned and generating electricity. We would like to thank all our members who have bought shares that has enabled this project to happen. On the website you can see some aerial photographs of the panels in place.

We have just reached our £70,000 target for the phase 2 share offer, thanks to everyone who has applied for shares.

If you didn’t apply in time, there are several other community energy schemes that are trying to reach their targets before the 30th Nov when tax relief is withdrawn – have a look on www.sharenergy.coop/live/ for  list of open share offers.