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Cornwall Light & Power represented on renewableuk board

Cornwall Light&Power is pleased to announce that Matt Partridge has been re-elected to serve on the Board of RenewableUK, having first been elected to the Board in 2007.

RenewableUK, formerly the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), is the trade and professional body for the UK wind and marine renewables industries. Formed in 1978, and with 600 corporate members, RenewableUK is the leading renewable energy trade association in the UK.

Matt, Development Director at Cornwall Light&Power said: “I am delighted that the membership of RenewableUK has backed my nomination to continue serving on the Board.The formation of a new, coalition government provides an intriguing mix of challenges and opportunities and I look forward to helping guide RenewableUK and the sector at large through this period.”

Matt will serve a two year term on the RenewableUK Board and will have the specific brief of managing the interface between the Board and the Communications Strategy Group comprising representatives from some 20 member companies.This group manages media and political communications for RenewableUK and will be instrumental in compiling the responses to the Governments’ localism and energy Bills.

Matt will also be a member of the Onshore [Wind] Strategy Group while Simon Pipkin and Sophie Hartfield, two of the eight project development staff within Cornwall Light&Power, will serve on the Economics and Markets Strategy Group and the ‘EmbraceMyPlanet’ Steering Group, respectively.

For further information, please contact:

Cornwall Light&PowerTel: 01225 928 000
Neil Harris, Chief Executive
Matt Partridge, Development Director

Hogarth (for media enquiries)Tel: 020 7357 9477
Sarah MacLeod
Vicky Watkins

Notes to editors The Cornwall Light&Power Co. Ltd (CLP) is a UK onshore wind farm developer, owner and operator.With offices in Truro and Bath, CLP was originally established over a decade ago to build one of the first wind farms in the UK, Goonhilly Downs, before it was acquired by REG in 2005. Following further acquisitions and in-house, organic development, CLP now owns and operates eight wind projects in the UK comprising 26.25MW in aggregate : High Sharpley in County Durham, Goonhilly Downs, Roskrow Barton and St. Breock in Cornwall, Braich Ddu in Denbighshire, Whittlesey and Ramsey in Cambridgeshire and High Pow in Cumbria.In addition, CLP is currently constructing three projects : High Haswell in County Durham, Loscar in Yorkshire and the Goonhilly Downs Repowering in Cornwall; when completed in late 2010 these projects will increase CLP’s aggregate operating capacity to 41.15MW. With a staff of some 15 professionals, CLP has a current project development pipeline of some 350MW. For more information, visit www.clpwindprojects.co.uk.

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Published: 17/10/2011