£500,000 grant for Hermon, Glogue and Llanfyrnach - Renewable Energy Project |
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 |
Fe ddaeth newyddion da i brosiect
Cymunedol sydd am weld cartrefi, ffermydd a busnesau lleol yn cael
siawns o
leihau ei hol troed carbon. Mae prosiect Ynni Cwm Arian yn ardal
Hermon, Y Glog
a Llanfyrnach wedi cael cadarnhad ei bont yn un o 22 cymuned ar draws
Prydain
sydd yn mynd i rannu £10,000,000 ar gyfer datblygu gweithgareddau
Cymunedol yn y
maes lleihau carbon. Mae'r cynllun yn cael ei ariannu gan y llywodraeth
yn San
Steffan o dan Adran Ynni a newid hinsawdd. Mae manylion y cynllun ar www.decc.gov.uk
O fewn ardal Hermon, Y Glog a Llanfrynach mae yna fwriad nawr i ddosbarthu ddyfeisiadau darllen defnydd ynni i bob cartref am ddim (cost arferol £25) ac yna help i drigolion, ffermwyr a phobol busnes i edrych ar ddatblygu ffurf o leihau defnydd carbon. Mae yna gyfle i ffermwyr a busnesu i gael cymorth wrth osod system ynni adnewyddadwy boed yn dyrbin dwr, system solar, biomas neu dyrbin gwynt.
Mae'r gymuned eisoes wedi cael arian i edrych ar godi 2 tyrbin gwynt a fydd yn berchen i'r gymuned. Fe fydd yr elw o'r 2 tyrbin tua £200,000 y flwyddyn wrth weithi'r ynni i'r grid cenedlaethol, fe fydd yr elw yn dod 'nôl i gynnal gweithgareddau cymunedol a mentrau cymdeithasol. Un prosiect pendant yw chwilio am dir i godi unedau gweithdai i bobol ifanc i ddechrau busnesau eu hun, ble bydd yr unedau yn berchen i'r gymuned. Hefyd prynu tir i godi tai fforddiadwy a fydd yn berchen i'r gymuned. Pwyllgor o'r gymuned bydd yn penderfynu i bwy i osod y tai fforddiadwy gan sicrhau rhent rhesymol i alluogi pobol ifanc i gynilo ar gyfer blaendal wrth brynu tŷ eu hun i'r dyfodol.
Fe fydd y prosiect ynni hefyd yn helpu i sicrhau fod estyniad Newydd yn cael ei godi ger Canolfan Cymunedol Hermon i gynnig gofod swyddfa a hefyd gofod neuadd uewydd. Y bwriad yw cynnal cynadleddau a digwyddiadau yn ymwneud ac ynni adnewyddadwy. O fewn y cynllun fe fydd gofod llawr cyntaf ar gyfer cynnig gwelyau hostel a llety i annog twristiaeth a chreu swyddi yn y gymuned. Fe fydd hyn oll yn creu swyddi newydd.
Fe fydd cyfarfodydd
cyhoeddus yn cael eu trefnu yn fuan i annog unigolion eraill i ymuno
gyda'r
fenter. Y bwriad cychwynnol yw canolbwyntio ar ardal Hermon, Y Glog a
Llanfyrnach ond yna yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf mae yna fwriad i
lydanu'r
gweithgaredd i gymunedau cyfagos.
Yn ystod yr wythnosau diwethaf bu Gweinidog yr
Amgylchedd Llywodraeth y cynulliad - Jane Davidson yn ymweld â phrosiect
Cwm
Arian. Dywedodd ei bod yn edrych ymlaen at weld y syniadau yn cael eu
gwireddi
drwy'r arian a enillwyd gan gynllun Ynni Cwm Arian. (Llun Jane Davidson
gyda'r
criw Cymunedol yng Nghanolfan Cymunedol Hermon)
Some great news has been received by a local
community project wishing to see homes, farms and local businesses
lowering
their carbon footprint. The project known as Cwm Arian Renewable Energy
(CARE)
that covers the communities of Hermon, Glogue and Llanfyrnach has been
successful in clinching one of 22 grant awards from across Britain. In
total the
grant known as Low Carbon Communities Challenge was offering
£10,000,000 to be
split between communities with exciting ideas for lowering carbon
footprints and
stimulating social enterprises from revenues generated from community
renewables. The scheme is administered by the UK governments Department
for the
Environment and Climate Change ' see details on www.decc.gov.uk
Then to help householders, farmers and business
people to look at opportunities of lowering carbon emissions. There
will be
opportunities and help for farmers and business people to look at
installing
renewable energy equipment such as hydro turbines, solar systems or
wind
energy.
The community group at Cwm Arian has had
feasibility study money in 2006 to look at the idea of having 2-wind
turbines
that would be owned by the community. The 2 turbines would give the
community an
annual profit of £200,000 from energy sold to the national grid. The
money would
stay in the community and be used to support community groups and
also
start looking at social enterprise businesses that would be owned by
the
community. To create jobs and opportunities for local
people.
One future project idea would be to purchase
land and to put up community owned business units for local young
people to
pilot new businesses and also the community to start up social
enterprises &
cooperatives owned by the community. Also to purchase land for a
Community Land
Trust to build affordable houses that the community would own.
The locals
would then decide who could occupy the local affordable homes and
ensure rent
was sufficiently fair to allow young people to save up for a deposit on
their
own self-owned home in the future
Part of the Low Carbon Community money would
also be available to complete the refurbishment and new hall extensions
at the
Hermon Community Centre. The idea is to develop the site as a
conference centre
for community renewable and Community Land Trust initiatives. Within
the plan
for the centre there will be a first floor area developed for a hostel
style
tourist venue for people to also have an overnight stay option when
attending
the conferences. All of this will indeed create new additional
jobs.
There will shortly be a public meeting
announcement to encourage individuals to get involved in this exiting
project.
The initial plan is to focus on the catchment area of Hermon, Glogue
and
Llanfyrnach but during the next few years there is an intention to
extend the
development to neighboring communities.
During last week the Welsh Assembly
minister for the Environment Jane Davidson - visited Hermon to talk to
those
volunteers who had developed the project thus far. She commented that
she is
looking forward eagerly at seeing the fantastic ideas developed through
the
funds won under the Low Carbon Communities Challenge. ( In the picture
we see
Jane Davidson with the team who developed the initiative during their
meeting at
the Hermon Resource Centre)