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...
Brighton Energy Winter Newsletter 2021
Best Wishes To All Our Members For A Solar Filled 2021!Now we're 10 years old and have been creating Community Owned solar energy projects for over a decade, we're turning our hands to sharing our lovely green electricity with more of you! We're close to...
Brighton Energy Co-op 10 Years Old Today!
Against all the odds 2020 has been a great year for BEC!It’s our 10th birthday – yes, it’s been a decade since we sparked off Brighton’s first Community Owned renewable energy project back in 2010 – and to celebrate we completed 6 new solar energy projects, adding a...
A Day In The Life Part II – XR in London October 2019
Extinction Rebellion in London October 2019 | An image Gallery In October 2019 thousands of people took to the streets to protest the climate emergency. More fantastic images here. The struggle continues...Photo credits: Joe Taylor Daniel Burke Christaina Vysotsaya...
A Day In The Life – XR in London October 2019
Extinction Rebellion in London October 2019 | An image Gallery In October 2019 thousands of people took to the streets to protest the climate emergency. You may say they were making history - but you can only make history if you have a future to have it in. The battle...
BEC Members: £1000 donated to Extinction Rebellion Brighton & New Solar Builds Continue Apace!
Hi folks, Welcome to our new members newsletter. Read on for what BEC has been up to over the past few months, including new solar builds, our exciting new electric car charge point programme, BEC members at Extinction Rebellion in London - not to forget our AGM!...
Why Extinction Rebellion’s Strategy Might Just Work
Support for Extinction Rebellion is found in surprising places After the internet shouting, Westminster was tranquil. A bunting of high-vis policemen lolled about Whitehall. "We're holding it as a contingency", said one. For what? "For the Extinction Rebellion." Soon,...
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