Locally owned renewable energy sources can provide multiple benefits. But how do you get local people to invest? A key driver is the net reduction in the local carbon footprint but that involves complex numbers and data. This is where our data visualisation techniques can be useful. Particularly if combined with drone photography.
Annual CO2 savings from two solar fairms
Yealm Community Energy is a member-owned society that invests in renewable electricity for the local rural community in the South Hams, Devon, UK. They wanted to launch a community share offer to fund the transfer of three nearby operational solar farms into community ownership. The share offer would enable local people who care about climate change to put their money to work to tackle the issue directly.
So in order to engage the local people we created animations that could grab their attention. Working with local drone photography specialist Ed Smit of Carrick Roads Studios we combined their drone footage with our CGI effects. By turning the annual carbon data into daily emissions, savings totally and emissions per household, we hoped this would galvanise local people into becoming involved.
Daily CO2 savings from two solar farms
Daily CO₂ emissions from five parishes (1)
Daily CO₂ emissions form five parishes (2)
Happily the long awaited share offer was finally completed on the last day of December 2023. More info on Yealm Community Energy here.