Bristol City Council (BCC) has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Local Authority Award. This award is sponsored by PowerPaired, a new, free online platform which provides a matchmaking service to bring together community energy groups and the owners of sites with potential for renewable energy generation. Created by sustainability NGO Forum for the Future, […]
Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Photograph Award. Bill McLaughlin who produces a community newspaper in Irlam and Cadishead, Salford took the winning image. The photograph features children from Irlam Primary School and Fiddlers Lane Primary School, both in Irlam, at an event organised by GMCR to celebrate the […]
The Carbon Co-op and URBED – People Powered Retrofit scheme has been highly commended in the 2019 Community Energy & Carbon Saving Award. Over the past nine months Carbon Co-op, URBED (design and research consultancy) and a partnership of community energy groups have developed and piloted a new community-focused retrofit service – People Powered Retrofit. […]
South East London Community Energy (Selce) has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Social Impact Award. Selce is a community energy group that places as much emphasis on supporting people to be more energy efficient and tackling fuel poverty as they do on generating renewable energy. They use social business models to meet the needs […]
The Solar Bee Project, managed by the Naturesave Trust, has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Environmental Impact Award. The project has so far seen ten Thermosolar Beehives installed across the UK to create the UK’s first solar bee network. The innovative new hives have been designed to use solar energy to destroy the Varroa […]
Nick Rouse has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Champion Award. For the past twelve years Nick has volunteered his time and technical expertise to champion local renewable energy generation projects; promote the benefits of energy efficient homes and buildings; and educate others about the need to reduce carbon emissions and play our part in […]
Nadia Smith has been awarded the 2019 Community Energy Young Champion Award. At just 22 years of age Nadia has already played an important role, both in the UK and abroad, in promoting and raising awareness of the benefits community energy offers to local people, businesses and the environment. Nadia does not have an academic […]
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 […]
