{"id":1793,"date":"2017-08-01T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2017-09-16T23:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:48:39","slug":"michael-hails-great-local-exporter-for-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Local Business Wins National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has hailed local business Winch Energy a \u2018great local exporter\u2019 following its\u00a0success at prestigious award event.<\/p>\n<p>Winch Energy, a global, off-grid renewable energy developer based in Sevenoaks, has been awarded \u2018Export Champion\u2019 by Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.\u00a0 It is among 29 other outstanding British businesses that have been selected for distinguished programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The locally-based company, founded by CEO Nicholas Wrigley, provides electricity, electric water pumping and satellite connectivity to off-grid populations in Africa. It was founded in 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1875\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lord-Marland-left-and-Nicholas-Wrigley-CEO-of-Winch-Energy-with-his-certificate-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Marland (left) and Nicholas Wrigley, CEO of Winch Energy, with his certificate\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lord-Marland-left-and-Nicholas-Wrigley-CEO-of-Winch-Energy-with-his-certificate-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lord-Marland-left-and-Nicholas-Wrigley-CEO-of-Winch-Energy-with-his-certificate-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lord-Marland-left-and-Nicholas-Wrigley-CEO-of-Winch-Energy-with-his-certificate.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Marland (left) and Nicholas Wrigley, CEO of Winch Energy, with his certificate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael\u00a0congratulates Mr Wrigley and Winch Energy employees on their impressive award. \u00a0He said: \u2018This is yet another example of business booming in Sevenoaks.\u00a0 Our local trades punch above their weight not only here in the UK, but also across the world.\u00a0 I am committed to ensuring that this business and great local exporters like it can seize upon the opportunities presented by Brexit and expand their global successes.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has hailed local business Winch Energy a \u2018great local exporter\u2019 following its\u00a0success at prestigious award event. Winch Energy, a global, off-grid renewable energy developer based in Sevenoaks, has been awarded \u2018Export Champion\u2019 by Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.\u00a0 It is among 29 other outstanding British businesses that have been selected for distinguished programmes. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Local Business Wins National Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4,583,584,504,497,582,581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}