Westmill in the News

Westmill is much more than wind turbines and solar panels generating green electricity.

With community at its heart, a focus on education and pioneering plans for co-operative development, Westmill is at the forefront of the sector and is often recognised as an example of true community energy in action.

The news stories below demonstrate the range and reach of Westmill on a local and an international level.

 

• Solar farms could become wildlife refuges, and the RSPB says the secret is what grows under them, thecooldown.com, 25th June 2026

 

• Solar farms are putting sheep under the panels, and the land beneath clean energy is becoming part of the system, vozpopuli.com, 22nd June 2026

 

• Sheep Help Generate Electricity: English Solar Farm Powers 1,600 Homes inkorr.com, 17th June 2026

 

• Sheep at Oxfordshire solar plant transform 30 acres into a biodiversity haven, enhancing local habitats, noticiasambientales.com, 16th June 2026

 

• Solar power is getting a new physical test, and the land beneath the panels may matter more than expected, okdiario.com, 15th June 2026

 

• A solar farm in southern England put 40 native sheep under 20,000 panels across about 30 acres to graze in winter, and the twist is that the flock didn’t just “mow the grass”, it helped protect wildflowers and pollinators while using the panels as storm shelter, turning a power site into a two-job landscape called agrivoltaics, ecoticias.com, 10th June 2026

 

• They brought sheep to graze near a solar plant, and showed how solar farms can share land with grazing, The Times of India, 5th June 2026

 

• They brought 40 sheep to graze near a solar plant, and it quietly began to change how energy is produced, The Pulse, 21st April 2026

 

• The Local Power Plan: Putting Clean Power in Communities’ Hands, Local Government Lawyer, 18th March 2026

 

• Volunteers secure important funding for village hall, White Horse News, 5th November 2025 

 

• China: the Saudi Arabia of solar power? Morning Star newspaper, 30th October 2025 

 

• Westmill Wind Farm and Solar Park Guided Tour, Swindon Evening Advertiser newspaper

 

• Westmill Wind Farm and Solar Park Guided Tour, Wiltshire Gazette and Herald newspaper

 

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