Riding Sunbeams, the start-up social enterprise on a world-leading mission to power railways with community solar, has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Collaboration Award. This award was sponsored by Power to Change, an organisation who want to create better places through community business. They will use their endowment to strengthen community businesses across England. […]
North Kensington Community Energy (NKCE) has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Renewable Energy Project Award. This award was sponsored by Co-op Community Energy. This new venture has been created by Midcounties Co-operative and Octopus Energy in order to help support the vital community energy sector. The initial focus will be on making sure sites […]
Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative (BHESCo) has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy & Carbon Saving Award. BHESCo is a consumer co-operative comprising over 170 members and with four full time members of staff who have made remarkable achievements in just four years. They have delivered 52 energy projects, completed 670 energy audits, and […]
Community Energy England and Community Energy Wales announced the winners of the 2018 Community Energy Awards at the Arnolfini, Bristol on Friday 19 October. The awards were sponsored by Bristol City Council and Co-op Energy. The winners of the Community Energy & Carbon Saving Award, which looks for the community group which has undertaken the […]
Community Energy England and Community Energy Wales announced the winners of the 2018 Community Energy Awards at the Arnolfini, Bristol on Friday 19 October. The awards were sponsored by Bristol City Council and Co-op Energy. The winners of the Community Renewable Energy Project Award, which looks for the most outstanding renewable electricity generation project undertaken […]
Carbon Co-op are a community benefit society established in 2008 and incorporated in 2011 by Greater Manchester residents who had begun carrying out changes in their homes and communities to reduce carbon emissions and energy bills. The organisation is owned and run by the householders who make up its members and share the goal of […]
Energy Local are trialling an incredibly innovative project in Bethesda, North Wales, where 104 local households and a hydro have come together to form an ‘Energy Local Club’. Energy Local CIC has worked with Co-operative Energy to pair the households with a local hydroelectric generator owned by the National Trust. Using smart meters and an […]
Gower Regeneration is Wales’ first community owned solar farm. Sited on an old coal mine in rural Swansea and right next to a primary school, the project will provide clean energy for the demands of 300 hundred houses and tell the story of our energy transition for this generation and generations to come. The 1MW […]
