Get Connected: Collaborative Learning
Get Connected is a collaborative training course for rural social and community enterprises in the South West who are committed to improving their enterprise’s performance. Scroll down to Find out more.
Hydro Power Action Learning: 26/27th March, Devon
(plus 6 online sessions)
This Action Learning Set will help you explore all you need to know to develop a hydro electric generation project.
It may be a crossflow, a turbine or an Archimedes screw, but regardless of your technology you need to ensure that your enterprise is designed around a watertight business case!
The action learning process will bring together practitioners to support one another to:
- Share experiences and skills to help you tackle the challenges your project faces
- Gain new perspectives on your enterprise and approach
- Consider opportunities for collaboration with other like minded enterprises
- Help you decide what actions will move your project forward
- Prepare a good business plan to become investment ready.
The action learning set isn’t intended to look at details of the technological aspects of a hydro scheme - you’ll already be doing that yourself – or being a teaching programme but we can draw in expertise in the following areas:
- Governance structures - what model are suitable for community ownership
- Raising finance – in particular community shares generally and loans
- Selling electricity to the grid including ROCs, LECs and Feed in Tariff etc.
- Legal implications – an overview of licenses, permissions etc
What’s involved –
An introductory residential (26th/27th March in Devon) where we will:
- Meet all the participants and build up a picture of the proposed schemes
- Share expectations and challenges
- Hear from a guest speaker – to provide an overview of developing hydro schemes and answer your tricky questions
- Consider what makes a good business plan and how to put it together.
The residential will be followed up by 6 online themed sessions every three weeks where you can meet your fellow participants to consider progress as you build your business case and also have access to professional input on specialist topics.
The programme will be supported with referrals to other sources of specialist support and advice.
Places are free and all accomodation costs are covered through the programme if you are a social or community enterprises. Places are not available for third sector support agencies. Bursaries are available to cover the cost of travel