Information

Membership costs just £1 for life.

If you would like to become a member of WREN please click the link below to download a membership form, which also contains the privacy notice and the details of how to pay the membership fee and submit the form.

WREN Membership Application Form

Completed and signed forms should be scanned and emailed to m, or posted to the registered office: WREN, c/o Alexander & Co, Negys Gorthybow, Schooners Business Park, Bess Park Road, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 6HB

• Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) Ltd is a not-for-profit company, registered under the Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 as a registered society.
• WREN helps residents and businesses reduce their energy costs through energy management and generation, and works to produce local economic benefits.
• WREN was launched in January 2011
• WREN has over 1,100 members
• WREN’s principal geographic area of focus encompasses the parishes and wards of Egloshayle, St Breock and Wadebridge, extending out across the Wadebridge and Padstow network area

• WREN was founded in 2011 by a group of volunteers to bring the benefits of the low carbon economy to the area, as well as help residents and businesses reduce their energy costs. As a social enterprise, owned by its members, all benefits above running costs go to community investment and community projects.
• WREN administers the community funds contributed by St Breock wind farm and Middle Treworder solar farm, distributing £60,000 - £70,000 per year to local voluntary and not-for-profit organisations in the community. In 2020 the St Breock fund included a ‘rapid response’ element for organisations providing services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, or who had been financially impacted as a direct result of the pandemic.
• WREN has its own £9,000 fund to support environmental and sustainability projects, or projects that aim to inform and educate on environmental and sustainability issues.
• In 2019, WREN began a new project, Energy Equality, funded by RCEF, the Rural Community Energy Fund, to investigate the feasibility of peer-to-peer trading as a means of using community energy to encourage further investment in rooftop solar PV and at the same contribute to alleviating fuel poverty.
• WREN takes an active interest and role in promoting electric vehicles and the provision of public charging points for them.
• In 2015-16, WREN initiated and carried through the Sunshine Tariff Trial with Western Power Distribution (the local network operator), a Network Innovation Allowance project that pioneered time-of-use tariffs to influence electricity demand.
• WREN formed the Wadebridge Energy Company, a not-for-profit company which installed 100kW of solar PV to supply the South West Water Nanstallon sewage treatment works.
• WREN seeks to inform about and facilitate uptake of local and national initiatives and funding for energy.
• WREN has influenced or initiated the installation of 3.4MW of solar PV and 2MW of renewable heat in the Wadebridge area. It helped insulate 160 homes funded by CERT.

• To share the benefits of Renewable Energy across the whole community
• To add to the quality of life and prosperity of the town
• To reduce the amount of energy we, as a community, use
• To reduce poverty, especially fuel poverty, in our area
• To help explore ways to produce energy using sun, wind, waste & tide
• To put Wadebridge at the cutting edge of renewable technology
• To help Wadebridge produce its own inflation proof, cheaper energy