This project has been funded through the Gwynedd Piloting Fund, a Fund which has been targeted at community groups in Gwynedd to enable them to trial new activities in their communities.

Ynni Llŷn are a newly constituted Community Interest Company with a stated aim of “Encouraging the sustainability of communities on the Llŷn Peninsula by ensuring that sources of energy and fuels are renewable and/or affordable, reduce carbon emissions and contribute to the local economy”

Decarbonising heating, electricity and transport currently equates to switching to renewably sourced electricity. We aim to encourage this switch by reducing the cost of electricity for end users, domestic and commercial, through utilising a local supply or peer to peer electricity trading scheme such as Energy Local.

The group were successful with their Piloting Fund application to commission a qualified local electricity distribution network consultant to create a brief on re-designing the Botwnnog sub-station network, utilising smart grid technology and minimising current infrastructure reinforcement, in a way that allows additional capacity on that network enabling new generators, additional consumers (EV Rapid charge points for example) and the implementation of a local supply/peer to peer electricity trading scheme.