Green energy projects in Wales have had a Happy New Year with a £10m boost of grant funding.
The Welsh Government has offered the cash to32 community green energy projects across Wales.
The projects include the deployment of solar panels and heat pumps, to battery storage and electric vehicle charging points.
They will help to reduce the use of energy across a wide range of organisations, including schools, leisure centres, care homes, business parks, community and activity centres.
The Welsh Government’s Ynni Cymru programme, set up to support locally owned renewable energy generation, will provide the cash.
Rebecca Evans, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning said: “There was a huge amount of interest in this support, which goes to show the enormous appetite for clean, smarter energy systems keeping benefits within our communities and reducing the need for large scale infrastructure.”
