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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
UKPN unveils location tool for community & council green energy projects
Distribution system operator UKPN has launched a planning tool to help volunteer energy co-ops and town hall planners identify sites for low carbon power...
npower offers cash to community groups in Midlands and Yorks
Leading energy supplier npower Business Solutions has launched a new community fund, designed to support projects improving the environment, encouraging responsible business and supporting...
Sam’s vision: Midcounties teams with Big Solar Co-op to trim 5% from power bill
A store manager's initiative has led to one of Britain’s biggest co-operatively owned retailers partnering with The Big Solar Co-op in quest of cheaper,...
“Plug-in locals to citizen power, then watch renewables thrive”, think tank urges
‘Plug in Public Power’, a new report from left-aligned think tank Common Wealth sets out a blueprint for Labour’s ‘Local Power Plan’. Author Nick...
Britons ‘vote with their feet’, in quest of greener, low carbon communities, survey finds
A growing number of Britons would move home or shift jobs if their communities or companies do not commit to going greener in the...
Champions! UKPN pledges £1m to volunteer co-ops delivering advice against fuel poverty
Britain’s biggest distribution network franchisee is pledging £1 million to help energy co-operatives & local groups scale up their Net Zero programmes.
Working with Lewes-based...
Community Energy England backs Labour on £1 Bn boost for local power
The body representing over 300 citizen-controlled green electricity co-ops in England has endorsed the Labour Party’s £1 Billion manifesto pledge to put rocket boosters...
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...
Energy co-ops slam Johnson’s Net Zero Strategy
Leaders of England's 300-plus power co-operatives have slammed the Johnson administration's Net Zero Strategy. They say it shuns the work of thousands of hard-working...
Energy activists supply premium clothing brand
Energy Garden, a network of community energy projects in London, from next month will supply renewable electricity to two outlets of Patagonia, the upmarket...
Brighton Energy Co-op advertises commercial roof projects seeking PV installers’ bids
One of Britain’s longest established community-accountable energy co-operatives has started to advertise projects seeking competitive bids from solar installers.
Brighton Energy Cooperative is advertising upcoming...
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.
Power for...
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...