BEC’s Solar Projects

Commercial Rooftops

Our expanding portfolio of commercial partners includes Shoreham & Newhaven Ports, Rathfinny & Bolney Wine Estates, Refine Metals near Horsham and The Big Lemon bus company in Brighton.

Companies benefit from buying our cheaper business electricity, whilst improving their EPC rating and carbon footprint. We cover the installation and maintenance costs of the system.

Maidstone United Football Club, Infinity Foods Wholesale, BCMY, Medisort and RT Page all save thousands of £s every year thanks to our solar. See the map above for all our solar sites.

Refine Metals use BEC solar to save thousands ££££’s on their energy bills

Installed in the summer of 2016, the solar PV system at Refine Metals is owned and operated by energy co-operative Brighton Energy Coop. The Coop funded and developed the system; Refine now buys electricity from the solar panels at a discounted rate. This discount means Refine Metals in excess of £7,000 a year on their electricity bills, and saves more than 40 tonnes of carbon. Refine Metals was developed by the Brighton Energy Coop team and installed by GenerationFIT

Community Energy at Shoreham Port | Pre 2019 projects

Brighton Energy Coop has a long-standing partnership with Shoreham Port, one of the largest cargo-handling ports on the south coast. BEC owns more than 2000 solar panels on Port buildings – on two large industrial sheds and at a Port-owned business centre. These systems generate a substantial proportion of the energy used to operate this crucial Sussex facility.

Solar For Schools

BEC works with Brighton & Hove City Council, Worthing & Adur Council, the University of Brighton and various Academies to bring solar power to many of their educational buildings. We’ve put free solar on Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, Blatchington Mill Secondary School, Hove Park Lower & Upper, all four GBMC campuses, Ore Valley College, and numerous local primary schools. See all our educational buildings projects here.

Balfour Infant & Junior Schools Get Free Solar

Balfour Infants & Junior School received a 120kW Solar System in May 2020 The 10th local Brighton & Hove school to partner with us to put a free Solar PV energy system on their roof was Balfour Infants & junior School. This local 5 Ways school now has a...

Blatchington Mill Secondary School Goes Solar

BEC's Free Solar For Schools Programme Keeps Growing Across Brighton & Hove Tucked in a high corner of Hove, Blatchington Mill School’s south-facing roofs are a great home for BEC’s 200kWp solar system. Our locally-owned green energy system builds on the...

Hove Park School Gets Free BEC Solar System

Hove Park School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form centre spread over two sites in Hove. With several great south-facing roofs, we installed two solar systems here in early 2020, which now green the schools energy supply and provide an excellent educational...

Residential and in the Community

We’ve put solar PV on both St George’s Church in Brighton, 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 have helped the Brighton Earthship develop solar energy on their roof as well as supporting other low-carbon schemes via our Community Fund. You can see a selection of our off-grid systems here.