by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | 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 2019 FITs were summarily scrapped. This, many posited,...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | 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, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | 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, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | 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 –...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog
Carden Primary School – 180kWp of new community-owned solar planned for the new year Hi folks, I’m very pleased to say that we’ve just launched the latest of our new community-funded solar projects. We’ve been beavering away for the last six...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
The UK government is intent on removing planning permission requirements surrounding fracking. Yet with Energy Minister Claire Perry demanding a “line of sight to commerciality”, evidence from the US shows fracking almost never makes any money. The...
