by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog |
I thought that I would post up links to 4 webinars that I have hosted recently on community energy issues on the www.communitycentral.co.uk platform. Just click on the links below and then playback the webinars: 1) Finance: funding options beyond LCCC including debt...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog |
I thought that I would post up links to 3 webinars that I have hosted recently on community energy issues on the www.communitycentral.co.uk platform. Just click on the links below and then playback the webinars: 1) Finance: funding options beyond LCCC including debt...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Apr 11, 2011 | Blog |
I’ve been thinking about the idea of resilience quite a lot recently. On the ‘macro’ scale, initiating a community-owned renewable energy project is inspired by the need for us to become more resilient in the face of climate change and peak oil. Clearly installing...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog |
While the FIT review is targeted at large scale installations, the reclassification of solar projects over 50kW as ‘large scale’ threatens community schemes too. The question for government, therefore, is at what scale can community energy projects succeed? This post...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog |
Whilst the Feed In Tariff (FIT) review has prompted huge disappointment across the solar industry in the UK, FIT regimes across the continent have been unstable for a couple of years. So what causes governments to wobble on FITs? Too many projects Fundamentally, the...
