by Atlanta Cook | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog
Best Wishes To All Our Members For A Solar Filled 2021! Now we’re 10 years old and have been creating Community Owned solar energy projects for over a decade, we’re turning our hands to sharing our lovely green electricity with more of you! We’re...
by Atlanta Cook | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog
Against all the odds 2020 has been a great year for BEC! It’s our 10th birthday – yes, it’s been a decade since we sparked off Brighton’s first Community Owned renewable energy project back in 2010 – and to celebrate we completed 6 new solar energy projects, adding a...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
Community energy notched up another victory today with the announcement that Littlehampton toolmaker Naiad Plastics will be Brighton Energy Coop’s next community-owned solar PV build. Naiad, a manufacturing company who make injection mouldings and...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog
Recent figures show that the BN postcode area has been kicking out solar PV capacity. More than 9435 buildings across the BN area now have solar. That’s around 36MW of clean solar power Brighton Energy Coop owns 3.3% of our region’s solar capacity (with...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog
New community energy and school solar projects fell by 99.4% after our incompetent government imposed cuts to the Feed in Tariff, an answer to a parliamentary question has revealed. Using OFGEM figures, Energy Minister Richard Harrington (nope, not heard of him...
