Ethex celebrates 10 years, aims for £200 million by 15th birthday
Impact investment platform Ethex is celebrating its first decade of putting £120 million of small investors’ cash to good use in green energy and...
Community energy groups have until Tuesday to share £20 million
The Energy Savings Trust has opened its latest Energy Redress grants up for applications to charities & groups fighting fuel poverty. Across four funding...
SP Energy Networks offers Net Zero grants to community groups
A historic medieval church now in community control is among ventures to benefit from SP Energy Networks’ community fund, designed to spur technology accelerating...
Ease planning curbs on London’s community energy, GLA councillors urge
London’s Mayor and central government must back the capital’s solar energy volunteers with cash and by easing planning curbs which hold back City Hall’s...
Solar co-operatives: Five groups bring 36MWp into community control
Community energy volunteers have completed what they claim is England and Wales’ biggest ever transfer of solar PV to collective citizen control.
Eight solar farms...
Co-ops & charities share £57m of Ofgem’s tripled take from bad suppliers
Industry regulator Ofgem raised a record £77.2 million from poorly performing energy retailers last year. Communities, including energy co-operatives and volunteers trained in energy...
NG’s community fund shares £5 million on fuel poverty advice
More than 700 grassroots organisations are sharing £5 million of funding to tackle fuel poverty this winter, thanks to National Grid Electricity Distribution’s Community...
Roofs shine over school & Shoreham port, as Brighton Energy Co-op raises £700k in...
Sussex-centred green power volunteers Brighton Energy Co-operative have given the lie to fears of "investor fatigue” in raising funds for accountable, socially engaged power...
Co-op a look, Donald! UK’s biggest community-owned wind farm half way to spinning citizen-controlled...
Four of eight permitted turbines have now been erected at a pioneering new wind farm in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, on Scotland’s south west coast.
Together rated...
ENW awards community funds to North West volunteer groups
Volunteers in community energy co-ops in the North West are sharing more than £80,000 to support the region’s needs in energy use and transition.
Grid...
Local energy co-ops to benefit from Whitehall’s new £10 million renewables pot
Communities across England will be supported in setting up local energy projects, thanks to a new £10 million government fund.
Both urban and rural communities...
Brighton Energy co-op raises £700k in a month from small investors
The growing appetite of small UK investors to put their money into local volunteer-led local energy co-operatives was demonstrated again today, as one of...
Brighton co-op secures EU cash for SMEs’ solar arrays
Whether "got done" already or only just beginning, the little matter of Brexit has not stopped a far-sighted energy co-operative from offering EU-sourced grants...
Shine, together: Ethex hosts share floats to flip solar farms into co-operative ownership
Co-operative investment platform Ethex is hosting a £2.5 million share float for small investors, designed to convert seven commercial solar farms – four of...
Co-ops hail Starmer’s “turbo-charging” of volunteers’ & Town Halls’ renewables
Community Energy England, the Renewable Energy Association and a leading advocate of collective ownership of power assets have welcomed Labour’s £400 million pledge today of...
Community Energy Fortnight celebrates Britain’s 300+ power co-operatives
Volunteers seeking to advance citizen control of Britain’s burgeoning clean power sector have begun celebrating events this Community Energy Fortnight.
Tours of community-owned electricity generators...
Solar co-op advances EU’s cash to green up Sussex firms’ power consumption
Brighton Energy, one of Britain’s most far-sighted volunteer-run energy co-operatives, is powering ahead, giving help to small businesses wanting to strip carbon from their...
Lords to debate co-operatives’ local right of supply
The House of Lords will this week debate a proposal to allow local generators including community energy co-ops to retail clean power direct to...
London’s energy co-ops surge, in quest of Mayor’s 1 GWp of solar by 2030
Influential volunteer-led co-operatives are punching above their weight in bringing citizen-controlled renewable power, overwhelmingly solar PV, to Britain's capital city, a conference hosted online...
Ecosia’s search wave finds sharers Ripple, seeks more ethical corporates
Sustainable web searchers Ecosia made waves today in consumer-owned British electricity, pumping Euros 250,000 into Ripple Energy, the funding innovators dedicated to boosting small...