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Westmill Solar Co-operative is a community owned cooperative business, registered as an industrial and provident society, based near Watchfield on the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire border in England. It acquired the Westmill Solar Park, a photovoltaic power station with a capacity of 5 megawatts peak and more than 21,000 solar panels that had been operational since July 2011, in October 2012, raising 4 million pounds from about 1,650 members through a public share offer plus a further 2 million pounds through a private placement and a senior debt bond from the Lancashire County Council Pension Fund. At acquisition it was recognized as the largest community owned photovoltaic power station in the world.

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