by Will Cottrell | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog
Last week Brighton Energy Coop hit a major target – we’ve raised just over £400,000 for our new solar builds. A big welcome to all our new members – nearly 100 people – and also thanks to those members who have increased your existing investments. We...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog
Recently completed BEC Community Solar at Ore Valley College near Hastings,...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, new project
There’s been a lot of talk about the end of the solar subsidy known as Feed in Tariffs (FITs). For eight years FITs were the basis on which nearly 1 million UK buildings installed solar panels. In March FITs were summarily scrapped. This, many posited, meant UK...
by Will Cottrell | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
From The Guardian Launching a new fossil fuel industry was a bad idea, and a coalition of localists and environmentalists appears close to defeating it Less than four months after what was supposed to be a new beginning for fracking in England, when Cuadrilla resumed...
by Will Cottrell | Jan 22, 2019 | Blog
This is community energy in action! #SolarForSchools Well it’s been quite a ride over Christmas and New Year! Since we launched our latest series of community-owned solar PV projects we’ve raised £258,000 – and built one: 60kWp of new community-owned solar...
by Will Cottrell | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog
#communityenergy in action! Yesterday work began installing a 60kWp solar system at the @uniofbrighton #grandparade site – here’s the framing that will hold the #solar panels in place. Find out details of all our solar projects –...
UK Fracking Makes No Money and Never Will – Here’s Why
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Feed in Tariffs to end in 2019 – what’s next?
April 2019 update - BEC secures exemptions to the end o...
Revealed: New Solar on Three Schools and a University – join BEC to Make it Happen!
Carden Primary School - 180kWp of new community-owned s...