Stanhope Community Association receives £19,200 to fund solar panels and battery storage for the residents of Stanhope, Durham.
A nearly 200-year-old building got a new lease of life thanks to grant funding to bring into the 21st century. The Stanhope Community Association is a charity based out of a repurposed 183-year-old police station in County Durham. They provide vital services and a meeting place for those people how may need a helping hand in the area. But due to a boom in in their pottery class, they began looking at ways to make the old police station more energy efficient.
Stanhope Community Association received £19,200 to fund solar panels and battery storage for the residents of Stanhope, Durham. The panels and the battery will provide the old police station with energy resilience allowing it to serve the local residents in times of power interruptions.
The challenges for Stanhope, Durham, residents
Due to the high energy costs and the possibility of power interruptions in Stanhope the trustees of the Stanhope Community Centre identified a need to increase their resilience and efficiency.
The solution for Stanhope, Durham, residents
The trustees of the Stanhope Community Centre identified that solar panels with energy battery storage was their best solution to allow the centre to keep their costs low and for the site to remain open for the local community to safely reside during times of power interruptions.
Support from the Northern Powergrid Foundation
The Northern Powergrid Foundation supported the community project with a £19,200 donation to go towards solar panels and battery storage.
More about the Northern Powergrid Foundation
The Northern Powergrid Foundation’s mission, complementing Northern Powergrid’s ambition to be a force for good in the communities it serves, is to support communities most affected by changes in the economy, environment, and society because of the shifting energy landscape. This will be achieved by supporting projects focused on helping to tackle energy resilience during emergency events, vulnerability, fuel poverty, levelling the rural divide, innovation, social support, and community collaboration. Funds are available to support the communities across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire served by Northern Powergrid.