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,...
Brighton Energy Summer Solar News
Brighton Energy's Souped Up SummerNo lazy Summer days here at BEC - we'll be making solar while the sun shines! You may recall that a while back we secured quite a few exemptions to the end of the Feed in Tariff Scheme: well, at the end of March we polished off the...
Solar on Amberley Museum’s Connected Earth Building – Connecting to the Sun Pays Off!
BEC Solar at Amberley Museum - the equivalent of planting 1500 trees a year! Brighton Energy partners with Amberley Museum in West Sussex to provide museum with bountiful amounts of clean energy. The 200 solar panels (45kW) at Amberley save the equivalent of planting...
Brighton Energy Co-op Strategy April 2021
BEC | Three Year Strategy April 2021 1. Vision – to see a high level of renewable energy locally owned, generated and used in the Greater Brighton area and wider region. Our Mission – to promote, develop and deliver large community owned renewable energy...
GMBC’s Brighton City Airport campus goes solar March 2021
Aircraft Maintenance & Motor Engineering Campus gets 60kW - 31 March 2021 Did you know Brighton City Airport hosts Greater Brighton MET College’s aviation maintenance and motorsport engineering education centre? Well, we’ve just installed a free 60kW solar...
Earth Day Today sees more Environmental Campaigners in Jail than Ever Before
EARTH DAY celebrates its 51st birthday today. Established in 1970 as a mass 'teach-in' for environmental protection, last year 100 million people participated in Earth Day activities - the largest online mass mobilization in history. Yet 2021 sees more environmental...
Brighton Energy Raises £200k in 3 Days
Brighton Energy are on fire this month completing solar on three educational buildings and installing the first solar-connected electric vehicle (EV) charger in the South East. With so much fantastic solar news coming through the BEC pipeline we hope you’re enjoying...
Joining Brighton Energy Coop – Our Latest Share Offer is Now Full
Update 4pm 26/3/21 – We’ve had an amazing response to our fundraising – after only three days our share offer is now full. We’re preparing a whole bunch of new community-owned solar projects for 2021 – if you’re interested in joining BEC for our next round of projects...
Brighton Energy Coop Launches New Share Offer – Support New Solar in Our Community!
Brighton Energy Coop Launches New Share Offer - Support New Solar in Our Community!We're very pleased to announce that we've just kicked off our latest set of solar builds in Brighton. And of course we don't do this sort of thing without community ownership - no. So...
Brighton Energy Solar News
Brighton & Hove-Schools pull together to reach Net Zero by 2050Happy half-term to all Brighton & Hove school teachers and home-schoolers out there. We hope you are getting a well-deserved screen break and some rejuvenating outdoor Nature. You'll need that...
Since 2010 we’ve raised over £3M, have 600 members and have built 63 sites
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BEC isn’t backed by venture capitalists or private equity, pension funds or fossil fuel companies. The only money we get is from you, our Members.
The £3 million we’ve raised to date is purely community investment.
We’ve no debt, and 80% of the money is from Brighton itself.
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