BEC’s Solar Projects

We are the proud owners of 80+ community-owned solar arrays.

Our solar partners range from schools to businesses, and from blocks of flats to a football stadium.

Our solar systems are funded by our members – hundreds of people who joined us over the past ten years, to build renewable energy systems for our city.

Our members receive a return on their investment and the chance to join a dynamic, progressive organisation committed to the development of community-owned renewables.

Community investment in BEC Solar Projects (£)

Brighton Energy Co-op MEMBERS

BEC Community Energy Projects

Commercial Rooftops

Our expanding portfolio of commercial partners includes Shoreham Port, Refine Metals near Horsham and The Big Lemon bus company in Brighton.

We also own solar energy projects on the roof of Maidstone United Football Club, at Infinity Foods Wholesale warehouse in Portslade and in 2018 we built a solar PV on the roofs of BCMY, Medisort and RT Page in Littlehampton.

Solar on Amberley Museum’s Connected Earth Building – Connecting to the Sun Pays Off!

BEC Solar at Amberley Museum - the equivalent of planting 1500 trees a year! Brighton Energy partners with Amberley Museum in West Sussex to provide museum with bountiful amounts of clean energy. The 200 solar panels (45kW) at Amberley save the equivalent of planting...

Brighton Energy Co-op & Bolney Wine Estate – Converting Sunshine into Wine in More Ways Than One

Nestled in the Sussex countryside, Bolney Wine Estate is an award winning English wine producer. Guided by nature, sustainability is a key part of their ethos. Brighton Energy Coop installed a 59kWp PV array on the roofs of the new winery & the main building in...

RT Page is a distribution firm in Barnham, offering transport services across the UK & abroad

RT Page is a distribution firm in Barnham, offering transport services across the UK & abroad. Our new PV system covers two of RT Page’s main buildings, providing lots of clean, green power for the company’s logistics systems.

Solar For Schools

BEC works with Brighton and Hove City Council, Worthing and Adur Council, the University of Brighton and various Academies to bring solar to many of their educational buildings. We’ve put free solar on Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, Blatchington Mill Secondary School, GBMC, Ore Valley College, and numerous local primary schools – which all benefit from our solar power.

East Sussex College gets BEC Solar on Ore Valley Campus

Brighton Energy Co-op members funded and built a 250kW system of 909 x 275W panels for East Sussex College’s Ore Valley campus in March 2019. It generated 234 MWh in 2021 - the equivalent to boiling a kettle a million times! The financial savings for the college are...

Rudyard Kipling Primary & Nursery School Gets Cheap Solar Electricity

Saving Local Schools Money Through Solar As part of our 2019 Solar For Schools project 13 local Sussex schools received free community-funded solar PV energy systems. Rudyard Kipling Primary School partnered with Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC) to put a 60kW...

Hertford Juniors takes Action on Energy Use

BEC Pioneers School-first Approach to Energy Learning Like many organisations, Hertford Junior School is feeling the impacts of increasing energy prices. That's why the school has recently signed up to Brighton Energy Co-op's Solar Education Programme (SEP), an...

Residential and in the Community

We’ve put solar PV on both St George’s Church in Brighton and City Coast Church in Portslade, and on Park Gate in Hove, a block of residential flats. We have a large solar array on Splashpoint Leisure Centre in Worthing, and we’ve also helped the Brighton Earthship develop solar energy on their roof and supported other low-carbon schemes via our Community Fund. You can also see a selection of our off-grid systems here.

Powering student life from the sun

As part of the on-going partnership with Brighton University, BEC installed Solar PV at Chalvington Close, on the Varley Park student residences on the outskirts of Brighton. Funded by community energy investors, in 2020 these generated over 12MWh of solar power. So...