300 MPs back local sales of co-ops’ power, want to bid ‘Do Zvidanya’ to...
Campaigners seeking rights for Britain’s 400-plus power co-operatives to sell clean electricity locally this week hailed a milestone on their road to victory.
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Fund promoting co-ops’ power secures £31 million debt rollover from big lender
An investment body promoting community ownership of solar farms has secured refinancing of its assets worth £31 million.
Community Owned Renewable Energy Partners (CORE) is...
Ofgem frees up £27 million to charities fighting fuel poverty
Energy regulator Ofgem is offering £27 million to fuel poverty campaigners & energy co-operatives in a bid to assist vulnerable homes caught in the...
Faithful to community energy: UK’s biggest DNO recruits engineers to help co-operatives
Western Power Distribution, Britain’s biggest distribution network operator serving eight million households, has become the first DNO to pledge operational support to the nation’s...
Big Solar Co-op seeks £1.2 million to speed big roof projects, targets 100 MW...
Social funding network Sharenergy believes its new national portfolio approach will succeed in unlocking the 5GW solar potential of Britain's commercial and community roofs.
Under...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
£3 million offered before 22 August to energy co-ops & community campaigners
Ofgem’s Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme opened this week for its fifth round of grant-making. Community campaigners & leaders of the UK's nearly 400...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...