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We’re delighted to be sponsoring Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group’s Art of Renewable Energy photography competition. The winning photographs which can be landscapes, people or abstracts will feature in an online exhibition and a calendar for 2022. Find out more about how to enter here!

For the first time in Spain, Falck Renewables has obtained a certificate of excellence in sustainability: the awarded project is the solar project under development in Chiva, Valencia (find more about it here – website in Spanish). This recognition, issued by the Unión Española Fotovoltaica (UNEF), acknowledges that the land on which the solar plant will be installed meets...

HEARING FROM YOU ALL OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS WE REALISE THAT THERE IS STILL A NEED FOR SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITIES AROUND OUR WIND FARMS AS WE GRADUALLY EMERGE FROM THE PANDEMIC. DOES YOUR COMMUNITY HAVE A NEW IDEA FOR A SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVE THAT WOULD HELP THE LOCAL AREA, ITS PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES GET BACK ON THEIR FEET? TELL...

Falck Renewables, through the Community Benefit Scheme at its Carrecastro Wind Farm, supported the Palenque Cultural Association in the organization of the social workshop “The tambourine in Castilla y León”, which took place on 19 June, in the municipality of Tordesillas, province of Valladolid in Spain. The tambourine is one of the main instruments of the musical tradition and culture...

ARE YOU A STUDENT CONSIDERING A CAREER IN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR OR A BUSINESS LOOKING TO UPSKILL/RESKILL YOUR WORKFORCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY? TO REQUEST FINANCIAL SUPPORT, APPLY BEFORE 8 NOVEMBER 2021! We are delighted to announce the launch of the fourth year of our Support Scheme for Sustainable Energy Studies/Training. Last year we provided funding for five students from communities around three of...

Youngsters from a community around one of our Scottish wind farms have been getting a taste of community funding and grant giving. P4/5 at Kilchuimen Primary in Fort Augustus, near our Millennium Wind Farm, set up the Kilchuimen Mini Money Fund to find out more about how a community benefit fund works. Applications to the £400 fund provided by Falck Renewables...

Residents and visitors to Seaforth House in Golspie, near our Kilbraur Wind Farm, can now sit outside in style. The care home’s old benches have been refurbished and painted thanks to a collaboration between the Kilbraur Wind Farm Community Benefit Trust (KWCBT) and the Community Payback team. Young people transformed the benches as part of their community payback service with paint...

One of our former offices in Italy is now home to the town library after a joint community initiative to breathe new life into old buildings. We’ve been working with the Municipality of San Sostene in Southern Italy, where our 43 turbine wind farm is located, and a local group of retired people to refurbish the building and transform it...

We shared some of our experiences of working in a STEM Industry with schoolchildren from around Scotland this week. Our Asset Manager Jamie Steel and Site Manager of Millennium Wind Farm Bruce Hosie took part in the Scottish Council for Development and Industry’s Celebration of STEM 2021, giving the young people taking part a virtual tour of the wind farm...

Undeterred by lockdown, Girvan Men’s Shed members have been working hard on a garden to enhance the entrance of Girvan Football Club’s Hamilton Park. Funding from Falck Renewables Assel Valley Wind Farm helped the Shedders as they’re known, to progress the project, working in partnership with several local groups and businesses to overcome the hurdles presented by the pandemic. Grants Whisky...