DALAVICH’S community hydro scheme is £300,000 short of its share sale target, with the deadline looming on Sunday April 30.
The project has so far raised £100,000 since its public sale began in January, to raise £400,000 of the £1.2 million needed to build the eco-venture on the River Avich.
Last year a small team of local volunteers set up a community benefit society, Awesome Energy (Dalriada) Ltd, ‘to build a 350kW run-of-river hydro scheme, install a microgrid fed by the hydro and manage the supply and demand of the renewable scheme for the benefit of the community’.