by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog |
Brighton Energy Coop recently received a grant from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to push forward on a new plan to convert Brighton’s food waste to electricity and heat. This process is called anaerobic digestion and uses the natural heat produced by...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog |
A few months ago the government set up a new fund to kick start community energy schemes. The Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) is designed to get the ball rolling – the first bit of the fund is a grant of up to £20,000. To apply for the fund, you need to be...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog |
Yesterday Energy Minister Greg Barker and Kemptown MP Simon Kirby met Brighton Energy Coop to discuss community energy in Sussex. The two MPs inspected our solar systems on St George’s Church, along with members of the St George’s team. Mr Barker was very...
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...
