Share Offers

Charge My Street launches a new share offer 

To achieve Charge My Street's mission of supporting EV infrastructure and community objectives, an additional £100,000 in capital is urgently required before 31st December. This funding will enable essential upgrades to charging equipment and ensure our operational resilience. Below are the primary drivers for this need:

1. Enhanced Resilience and Flexibility

• Service Capability: Modern, smart chargers support resilience and grid flexibility services by allowing integration into demand-response programs. During November, CMS successfully won 2 Flexibility contracts from ENWL’s Spring 2024 Tender https://www.enwl.co.uk/future-energy/flexibility-hub.    
• Revenue Generation: The enhanced capabilities of smart chargers offer new revenue streams through participation in grid-support services, aiding in both operational costs and long-term sustainability. 

2. Increased Reliability

• Addressing Charger Failures: Many existing chargers are outdated and increasingly fail, especially in Northern weather conditions.
• Costly Repairs and Downtime: These frequent breakdowns have resulted in costly multiple engineer visits, creating operational inefficiencies and impacting our credibility with site hosts.

3. Reduced Operational Expenditure

• Lowering Support Call Costs: With smart chargers that provide real-time diagnostics, the number of support calls related to faults and failures can be reduced significantly.
• Efficiency Gains: This will alleviate strain on the support team, cut down on reactive maintenance expenses, and allow resources to be reallocated toward growth and network expansion.

While the existing fleet of charges manufactured by EO has been the cornerstone of the CMS network in our early years, EO have recently announced that the back office software used to manage the chargers will be stopped on 9th January.  We have decided to switch to Autel Sevardis chargers, which will offer Charge My Street several key advantages over the current EO equipment, helping to mitigate the recurring issues experienced. 

This capital investment will ensure Charge My Street's infrastructure is robust, reliable, and positioned to deliver on its social, environmental, and financial goals. 

To invest in the future of Charge my Street, please visit www.chargemystreet.co.uk/invest  and pledge your support.  Generous 30% EIS tax incentives are available on your investment.  If you have any queries please contact us on 01524 881401 or hello@chargemystreet.co.uk 

Big Solar Co-op's 6-month share offer drive

Big Solar Co-op have launched a 6month share offer to support a planned roll-out of over 40 new solar projects across the country. 

Here’s the deal:

• You can invest any amount from £100 to £100,000
• You can opt to receive annual interest payments or reinvest your interest
• Big Solar Coop's target annual interest rate is currently 7%

Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy - First Share Offer in nearly a Decade

WWCE is raising £500,000 to install over 1,000 solar panels on Silverwood School’s Rowde campus, a new net-zero facility for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The project will provide the school clean energy and a £5,000 annual community fund for biodiversity and environmental education initiatives.

WWCE has kickstarted the fundraising by investing £121,000 and is now seeking the support of the public to secure a further £500,000 (target share interest of 5.5%) to guarantee the project’s future.

Grimsby Community Energy - Community Share Offer

Over the last eight years Grimsby Community Energy have raised £444,732 of investment to deliver renewable energy across Grimsby, Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire, installing 534kW of solar PV (photovoltaic) panels for community organisations, generating 157MWh of clean electricity and saving 184t of CO2.

This place-based approach to energy generation means local community organisations pay less for their energy and everyone who invests in Grimsby Community Energy has a vote in the running of our society. 

This new share offer is an ‘open offer’ without a closing date, so that people can support them financially whenever they are able to.

You can invest from as little as £100 (option for instalments) up to a maximum of £80,000 to help them raise £500,000 and achieve their target of one megawatt of solar PV for Grimsby. 

Congleton Community Solar - BECOME A GREEN INVESTOR

DVCE-CP (Dane Valley Community Energy-Congleton Park Ltd) is embarking on a new renewable energy initiative to harness power from roof based solar panels which we will install on schools and commercial properties in Congleton, wider Cheshire and North Staffordshire.

The project will reduce energy costs for participating sites including schools as well as provide an educational resource to increase environmental and sustainability awareness.

Surplus funds will also benefit local community projects. 

This is an opportunity for you to generate a projected 5% return on your investment and have your capital returned over 15 years. You can invest from £100 to £50,000 (institutional investors can invest up to £100,000). Our aim is to raise £530,000. The offer will close at the end of October 2023. 

For a share offer and business plan including full details of the project, benefits and risks we invite you to visit www.congletonsolar.co.uk or click on the link below.

* Our hydro scheme has generated 380 MWh of green electricity in under 2 years of operation and has already raised £9000 to community projects.  We are proud that the UK government chose to use our scheme as the poster child for its new £10M development fund to support community energy. 

Grimsby Community Energy's 4th community share offer

Grimsby Community Energy's 4th community share offer is now open for investment. Their offer is to fund solar PV installations at the CATCH Industrial Training Centre, and at YMCA Humber's Orwell Street building.

Grimsby Community Energy are a cooperative, run by members, who are dedicated to bringing community energy projects to their local area. With solar PV already operating at E-Factor, St Andrew's Hospice and the new YMCA Humber building on Freeman Street, they are now looking to build on their success.

Big Solar Co-op Share Offer

Why doesn't every big roof have solar? The Big Solar Co-op is on a mission to solarise the Uk, one rooftop at a time. We have an always-open rolling share offer to finance our ambitious program of new installations on big rooftops across the UK. We've now got over 40 new sites signed up and ready to build, from children's nurseries to steelworks, leisure centres to historic buildings - we just need more members to invest so we can deliver these and focus on the next round (already coming thick and fast).
A few key facts:

• Big Solar Co-op's focus is on solar that's not getting built but needs to be - large rooftops, small ground-mount (on appropriate sites)
• Our target interest rate is 5% (or 2% above base rate where that's higher)
• We're committed to make it as easy as possible for members to withdraw capital when they need to
• You can opt to reinvest your interest (to help build more solar - and so your returns are more like compound interest in a bank)
• We have a very strong ethical policy - we pay a significant premium for our low-carbon solar panels that don't source raw materials from areas implicated in forced labour

Whether or not you invest, you could join us - we are majority-owned by our Volunteer Members who pay £1 for membership. We can train you to find, design, and deliver solar. Do you have a favourite local big roof? Work with other volunteers from across the UK to make it happen - we've already helped several people to make this happen in their communities, sometimes in places that don't have existing community energy groups.

Brighton Energy Cooperative

Brighton Energy Coop have launched their latest share offer - to fund 578kWp of new community-owned solar PV at Rathfinny Wine Estate in Sussex.

They have teamed up with Rathfinny - the latest of our more than 40 solar landlords - to host nearly 2000 solar panels. This will be BEC's biggest solar system to date and will generate power for the winery buildings, shop and accommodation. 

Bath and West Community Energy

Bath and West Community Energy have a share offer which supports them to deliver clean local energy, community-owned for the common good.