SIFFFT (Sustainable Innovative Financial Foundation For Turbines) is an end-to-end process for developing community-owned onshore wind with direct benefits for the local community. Our community onshore wind programme will empower communities to lead the energy transition to net zero. We envision a future where communities, in their journey towards net zero, also build towards a positive, resilient future for themselves, taking back the decision-making by unlocking investment through the energy the turbine generates.

 

Where this community energy programme is different, is in its emphasis on communities taking ownership of the energy projects themselves without a single penny being spent by them or by the land leaser. Every stage of the process has been fully costed and managed by local authority funding and available loans, with this funding being paid back by the turbine during its lifespan, in addition to the funding being made available to the community and the land leaser. 

 

Community-owned energy is powerful. 25 years of stable income, through the diversification of your land, and massive benefits for the local community, helping them to protect vital assets such as local hubs, swimming pools, parks, and transport programmes.

​

If you have land or are part of a community who could benefit from the SIFFFT project, please register your interest below.

​

How it began

​​

The ideas for the SIFFFT project came together through the development of the largest onshore wind turbine in England, the Ambition Community Energy turbine in Avonmouth, Bristol. SIFFFT was pioneered in the West of England, made possible through a significant grant award in 2023 from the West of England Combined Authority’s Green Recovery Fund. The project is currently being rolled out in the three local authority areas of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire, but now we're looking to expand.

​