Flicker of light for solar panel scheme for Oswestry
A community owned, solar energy scheme for a Shropshire market town could still be viable, despite the ending of a government subsidy.
Oswestry Town Council has been working with other organisations on a scheme that would put solar panels on public buildings, generating power for the community.
But just days before the application was to have been submitted, the government announced it could no longer accept applications to the Rural Communities Energy Fund.
Councillors feared their proposals had been scuppered at the 11th hour.
But at the council’s Finance and General Purposes committee on Monday, assistant town clerk, Arren Roberts, said he was still optimistic that the Oswestry Solar Project would go ahead.
