by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Sep 5, 2013 | Blog |
Brighton Energy Coop’s solar installations have been reveling in the glorious weather: this summer has been a stunning opportunity to see our panels pumping out clean electricity at full force. Above is the output from our system at City Coast Church –...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Jun 7, 2013 | Blog |
Hi folks, Exciting news! Within the next few months Brighton Energy Coop will launch our second project, which will add more than 400kw of new solar capacity to our current systems. We’ll be doing it the same way as we did our first project last year – via...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog |
XTRACT FROM HANSARD Tuesday 22 January 2013 Tom Greatrex: I beg to move amendment 42, in clause 6, page 5, line 4, at end insert— ‘( ) Regulations must— (a) place a duty on the Secretary of State and the Authority to promote new generation capacity from community...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog |
Brighton Energy Coop has just qualified for EIS tax status. This means investors in BEC can claim 30% of the money they invested into Brighton Energy Coop as an EIS tax rebate. To do this, email info (at) brightonenergy.org.uk and we’ll then provide you with a...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog |
Something unthinkable is about to happen in the energy sector. Something so far away from the edge-of-a-precipice feeling that often envelopes renewable energy that it’s hard – at first – to comprehend. And yet it will utterly transform our...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Nov 23, 2012 | Blog |
In contrast to public perception, solar power just gets cheaper and cheaper. The price of some panels have fallen up to 28% in 2012, and most panels are becoming 3-5% cheaper each month. The falling price of solar has nothing to do with the UK. Instead, it’s...
