Energy

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Your latest renewable energy stories

Discounted Solar Panels Scheme Around Bridport

Allowing more people the opportunity to have solar panels installed on their homes, at a lower cost.

Dorset
  • Carbon emissions
  • Energy

Generation, Supply, Consumption, Storage (GSCS) Project

Providing innovative and cost-effective renewable energy solutions to business communities.

Blaenau Gwent
  • Carbon emissions
  • Excessive consumption
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment

Reading Hydro CBS - A community funded, built and operated hydropower plant

To harness the power of water to generate renewable low-carbon electricity on the River Thames

Reading
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Biodiversity & Nature

GM Business Green Scene

Helping businesspersons (in GM) collaborate with others motivated by the green transition.

Bolton
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Greater fairness
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Project Zero

Making the Council carbon neutral by 2030.

Vale of Glamorgan
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Transport

Croydon Community Energy

Implementing renewable energy generation and low-carbon technology in Croydon.

Croydon
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Circular Economy

Think big locally

Why Energy?

Reducing the carbon intensity of electricity generation is vital, as our energy supply contributes around one-quarter of the total annual carbon emissions in the UK. Decentralisation of renewables is an unstoppable force – local energy generation improves security of supply, is increasingly cost-effective and is far less polluting. We are part of a virtuous cycle: empowerment leads to more people switching to renewable energy supplies, that accelerates greater decentralisation of power generation, that results in more empowerment locally.

From Seed To Solar

Find out how Energy Garden has grown community energy and pride by mixing biodiversity, train stations, volunteers’ imagination and solar power.

All renewable energy initiatives

Ovesco Sunny Solar Schools

Supporting renewable energy generation and education.

Eastbourne
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment

Meadow Blue Community Energy

Producing renewable energy and investing in the local community.

Chichester
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Energy
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Project Vanguard

Building a green hydrogen production facility at the Council's Environmental Hub.

Cheshire East
  • Air pollution
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Energy
  • Transport

Groundwork North Wales’ Energy Projects

Supporting vulnerable people in North Wales, reduce their energy debt and their carbon footprint.

Conwy
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Energy

Wastewater Heat Recovery: Dŵr Uisce

Researching ways to stop water-related energy going down the drain in the built environment.

Ceredigion
  • Carbon emissions
  • Excessive consumption
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Catalyst: Net Zero Interactive Exhibit

Helping young people understand the route to net zero through an interactive exhibit.

Halton
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Circular Economy
  • Transport

Renewable Heating In Sheltered Housing

Replacing communal gas heating systems with renewable ground source heat pumps.

Adur
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Energy
  • Built Environment

Community-Owned Ground Source Heat Pump at TVAC

Replacing end-of-life gas boilers with a low carbon ground-source heat pump for a community facility

Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Energy
  • Built Environment

Community Energy Pathways

Growing, connecting, establishing business plans, and profile building community energy businesses.

Adur
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Energy

Southill Solar

Reducing carbon emissions and supporting the local community.

West Oxfordshire
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Energy
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Solar Installation at London Fire Brigade Stations

Designing and installing renewable energy systems for homes, businesses, and the wider community.

Basingstoke and Deane
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment

Delivering Network Visibility

Providing access to electricity network data to accelerate the connection of low carbon technology.

Cheshire West and Chester
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture
  • Transport
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