East Sussex College gets BEC Solar on Ore Valley Campus
Brighton Energy Co-op members funded and built a 250kW system of 909 x 275W panels for East Sussex College’s Ore Valley campus in March 2019. It generated 234 MWh in 2021 - the equivalent to boiling a kettle a million times! The financial savings for the college are...
Rathfinny Wine Estate Partners with BEC to Support B Corp Application
Rathfinny Wine Estate in Alfriston, East Sussex is partnering with Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC) to provide 1500 community-owned solar panels on the roofs of the winery. The project will save 400 tons of carbon each year - and support Rathfinny's application to gain...
BEC raises £300,000 – Join Now and Help Support Community Energy
Brighton Energy Coop's latest fundraiser has just hit the £300k mark - and counting! Over 70 people have bought shares in BEC in the last six weeks or so, helping us build more community-owned renewable energy in the south. This amazing effort is thanks to our...
£150,000 raised in NINE days – Join BEC Now and Help Us Build More Solar
Wow. In the nine days since we launched our latest share offer we've raised £150,000 towards our new solar build at Rathfinny Wine Estate. A big welcome to the many of you who have recently joined BEC - we literally can't do it without you. It's always humbling to be...
Brighton Energy Launches New Community Share offer – 578kWp of New Solar at Rathfinny Wine Estate
Brighton Energy Coop have just launched our latest share offer - to fund 578kWp of new community-owned solar PV at Rathfinny Wine Estate in Sussex. We've teamed up with Rathfinny - the latest of our more than 40 solar landlords - to host nearly 1500 solar panels. This...
Brighton Energy Summer Solar News 2022
Some Positive Solar News For You! Hope you are enjoying the summer. It's always a positive time for BEC as our solar generation hits the year's high point – read on to find out about our best ever solar generation day. Also included is our visits to our solar schools,...
Rudyard Kipling Primary & Nursery School Gets Cheap Solar Electricity
Saving Local Schools Money Through Solar As part of our 2019 Solar For Schools project 13 local Sussex schools received free community-funded solar PV energy systems. Rudyard Kipling Primary School partnered with Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC) to put a 60kW...
BEC Supports Schools at ‘Our City, Our World’ Event
BEC Helps Head Teachers & School Business Managers Head Teachers & School Business Managers are Under Increasing Pressure to Save £s & CO2 Brighton Energy were honoured to be invited to be a ‘city expert’ at Our City, Our World – Leadership for...
Brighton Energy Spring Solar News 2022
Welcome to our positive Solar NewsOur latest blog covers the fantastic generation at our sites now the sun's finally here, our exciting Opportunities for Solar Installers, our latest 'Walky Talky' social event, the conclusion of our EV Charger Network project and a...
Green Energy Awards – We’ve been shortlisted!
We've been shortlisted for Regen's Green Energy Awards. The awards are a leading national celebration of pioneering innovation and sustainable development for the UK’s energy system. We're shortlisted in the Community Energy section, which recognises the role of...
Brighton & Hove Schools Encouraged to Join Energy Sparks
Relationship Nurtured Between BHCC and Energy Sparks Gains Traction The solid relationship we have nurtured between Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) and national energy education charity Energy Sparks has far reaching benefits. It has opened up this incredibe...
Brighton Energy Winter Solar News 2021
Welcome to our Winter NewsletterIn our latest update we cover our grant for small businesses going solar, our ever growing charge point network, a first from our solar education programme, the latest moves in government on supporting community energy, and the...
BEC Launches Community Solar Accelerator Grant Scheme!
WE HAVE SOME GREAT 'ZERO CARBON' NEWS TO SHARE ON THE EVE OF COP26 STARTINGBrighton Energy Co-op is pleased to announce that we have secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to offer grants of up to £25,000 off the cost of solar PV arrays, or...
Energy Prices Will Continue to Rocket – Here’s Why
A recent fire at the UK-France IFA Interconnector knocked out 1000MW of electricity coming into the UK With media attention focused on soaring domestic energy bills, for business consumers prices are even higher - with more to come. The full impact of recent price...
Brighton Energy Autumn Solar News
High Electricity Prices are Good News for RenewablesWith electricity prices hitting headlines, you could be forgiven a sense of crisis. But apart from the obscene spectacle of government subsidising CO2 production in the year of the COP26 conference in Glasgow,...
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