Community Energy Awards 2025

The Community Energy Awards is our annual event that recognises and celebrates outstanding achievements in community energy. Winning a community energy award gives you a national platform to showcase your work and offers you the opportunity to highlight your achievements to the wider community energy sector.

We’ve published case studies for all 2025 finalists, so you can learn more about their fantastic work and be inspired by their stories.

2025 Finalists:

Fuel Poverty Action

South East London Community Energy (Selce) – WINNER
Plymouth Energy Community
CREW Energy
Yorkshire Energy Doctor CIC
ECOE Advice – Highly commended

Supportive Local Authority

Three Rivers District Council
Hackney Council
North Lincolnshire Council
Leicestershire County Council – WINNER
Bath and North East Somerset Council

Community Energy Excellence (Small or Medium)

Greensand Community Energy
Big Solar Co-op – WINNER
Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR)
Staffordshire Community Energy

Community Energy Excellence (Large)

South East London Community Energy (Selce)
Energy Local
North Lincolnshire Community Energy
Bath and West Community Energy – WINNER
Repowering London – Highly commended

Collaboration in Community Energy

BHESCo
Big Solar Co-op’s Whiteborough Project – a collaboration with Ethex and Younity
Carbon Co-op (The Society for the Reduction of Carbon Limited) – Highly commended
Staffordshire Community Energy – WINNER
Community Energy Pathways

Sector Support

Ethex – WINNER
OVO Energy
Bright Renewables
Northern Powergrid