Balcombe launches new solar community share offer

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Co-operative bounces back after last year abandoning community status for planned 5MW solar farm

RePower Balcombe, the group behind efforts to bring a community-owned solar farm to the Sussex village in the wake of anti-fracking protests in 2014, has launched a new share offer to support the installation...

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