Bigcarrots | Person To Person Lending | social lending | p2p borrowing WeFund | UK's biggest crowd source funding platform | fund-raising | pledges | theatre | arts | design | Film | dance | poetry EarlyShares | Crowdfunding Platform Clean Energy Crowdfunding — Crowdfunding Wind & Solar Projects in the UK Clean Power Published on April 23rd, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan Community-funded or crowdfunded wind and solar power is now being encouraged in the UK by renewable energy networking site EnergyShare, which is offering up £5,000 each for the first 5 renewable energy projects that also raise £5,000 on their own via the crowdfunding website. Another company, Abundance Energy, is also trying to get individuals and businesses to help fund and gain from clean energy projects, encouraging them to invest as little as £5 in wind turbines for an upcoming project. This is similar to what Solar Mosaic is doing in the US and what the Solar Schools program is doing for schools across the UK, but it is still a rather quiet trend, and the question is, will it take off? Real quickly, let’s run down what these two new options entail (since I’ve already covered Solar Mosaic and Solar Schools a bit). EnergyShare Abundance Energy Image Source: Abundance Energy About the Author
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