Greener Leith AGM: Speaker confirmed

Although we've already posted about the 2011 Greener Leith AGM, last time we hadn't confirmed a speaker.

We're now pleased to be able to announce that Matt Kaye from the Udny Community Wind Turbine Company Ltd, will be in attendance at the meeting. He'll give a short presentation on the Udny Community Wind project, which has recently started generating both power, and revenue, for their local community. 

The Udny Community Wind Turbine project is one of the first 100% community owned wind turbines on mainland Scotland - and so we hope to follow in their footsteps by building a Seafield.

After his talk, which we're sure will be both thought provoking and fun, there will be an opportunity to ask him, and Greener Leith board members about the development of community wind energy projects in general - and the specifics of our Seafield project.

You don't need to be a Greener Leith member to come to the meeting - so please do think about coming.

You do need to be a member to vote and stand for the management committee though. So if you are interested in this, please do bring your fivers so that you can sign-up for another year.

After the wind turbine discussion, and the formal business of the AGM has been concluded, it's very possible we'll end up in one of Leith's many fine hostelries for a refreshment or two.

The meeting will take place at 7.30pm on Tuesday the 1st of November at the Leith Kirkgate Community Centre. 

Five months ago, we met up with some of the people involved in the Udny Wind Turbine and posted our chat to Audioboo. You can listen to it here: