Community Energy Fortnight

Community Energy Fortnight 2024

Community Energy Fortnight (CEF) is a vibrant nationwide campaign reaching thousands of people and involving hundreds of organisations and it is a great opportunity to make your organisation's activities visible within the local community and show the rest of the sector, and important stakeholders, what community energy is all about. CEF 2024 will run from 1 - 14 July. 

This year's campaign is proudly supported by Thrive Renewables. 

If you are organising an event as part of Community Energy Fortnight please don’t forget to Submit Your Event and select the event category ‘Community Energy Fortnight Events’. This will ensure that your event is featured on this web page (scroll down) as well as feature in our dedicated CEF newsletters. 

All the resources for this year's campaign are on the resources page here.

Empower Community Energy

Community Energy Fortnight this year focuses on the theme of empowerment. We invite and encourage you and your organisation to participate, embracing the spirit of empowerment. The goals of the Fortnight are:

• To amplify the impact of past achievements within the community energy sector and its ability to empower and energise communities.
• To showcase the sector’s breadth and scale, and help spread the word about community energy.
• To highlight the sector’s full potential and show policy makers the barriers that need to be removed to #empowercommunityenergy.

We ask you to use the fortnight as a communications opportunity to raise your organisation's profile with local politicians and potential partners and so help CEE raise the profile of the sector nationally.

The significance of this year's campaign lies in the potential to influence political agendas and policies, ultimately leading to a transformation of the UK's energy system for the better. By participating in CEF and engaging with the election, community energy organisations can help elevate the importance of community-driven energy solutions on the political agenda.

This year, you  have a real opportunity to leverage CEF and the election year to increase visibility, engage with key stakeholders, and advocate for policy changes that support the wider sector. 

We have produced a range of resources to help you get involved with Community Energy Fortnight - these are now available to download from this page. We will add resources, news and events as the Fortnight takes shape over the coming weeks. 

For all Community Energy Fortnight inquiries please contact Kim Woodcock.