NOBEL GRID - Open tools for community smart grids

Through the NOBEL GRID project, Carbon Co-op will pilot a community smart grid in Manchester with between 100 and 200 householders, assisting them to work together to save energy, reduce ...

Northern Powergrid 2017 Community Energy Seed Fund

Northern Powergrid are offering local groups the chance to secure funding to kick-start their own community energy project.

The Community Energy Seed Fund is offering grants from £1,000 to ...

Big Energy Idea 2017 (Fund)

Ignite are looking for the brightest business ideas that use energy to make a difference in people’s lives. If you have an energy related idea, and are looking for investment ...

Connecting Community Energy: A guide to getting a network connection

This national guide written by Regen SW on behalf of the Electricity Networks Association (ENA) is for people developing community energy projects who want to get a connection to the ...

Energy4All Limited

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Basingstoke Energy Services Co-operative

Basingstoke Energy Services Co-operative (Bes Co-op) is owned by the local community for the benefit of the local community. We design and install renewable energy system with a main focus ...

Brendon Energy

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Brent Pure Energy

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative

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Brighton Energy Cooperative

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Environment Group

This project specialises in Thermal Imaging and is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Burneside Community Energy Ltd

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Carmarthenshire Energy Ltd

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Chester Community Energy Ltd

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Community Energy Birmingham

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Community Energy Cumbria

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Community Energy South

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Community Power Cornwall

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Ealing Transition

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Egni - Wales Solar PV Cooperative

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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EN10ERGY

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Exeter Community Energy Ltd

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Forest Row Energy Cooperative Ltd

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Glouchestershire Community Energy Cooperative Ltd

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Great Manchester Community Renewables Ltd

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Green Energy Nayland Ltd

This project is listed by Community Energy England. For further information please see their website, listed above.

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Gwent Energy CIC

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Hertford Energy Now

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HKD Energy Ltd

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Leominster Sunrise Cooperative

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Low Carbon Gordano

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Malvern Community Energy Cooperative

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Meadow Blue Community Energy Ltd

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Morecambe Bay Community Renewables

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OVESCO Ltd

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Repower Balcombe

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Solesco Cooperative Ltd

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South Brent Community Energy Society

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The Schools' Energy Cooperative Ltd

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Transition Monmouth

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Two Rivers Community Energy Society Ltd

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Burnham and Weston Energy CIC

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Burnham and Weston Energy CIC

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RegenSW Guide to Distribution Network Operators

A simple guide to Distribution Network Operators and the process of getting your project grid-connected.

Community Connections

A step by step guide to connecting to the electrical network for community energy groups.

Frontline worker handout from Big Energy Saving Network

Resource for home visiting professionals and volunteers

Rough Guide to Engaging Communities in Energy Network Innovation

Regen working with the Energy Networks Association have produced this guide is for communities and distribution network operators.

Connecting Community Energy: A Guide to Getting a Network Connection

This guide is for people developing community energy projects who want to get a connection to the electricity network. It provides an introduction to the electricity network and an overview ...

Electricity Storage Guide for Communities and Independent Developers

​RegenSW has been working with the Energy Networks Association and the DNO’s to produce this guide on connecting electricity storage to the network.

Electricity Network Innovation For Communities

Regen's new, updated guide on electricity network innovation.

Community Renewables Grid Connection Toolkit

The grid connection module is a one part series intended to cover all sizes of renewable installation. The module covers a brief overview of the UK electricity distribution system, designed ...

Ofgem - Grid Connections

Guidance on DNOs and grid connections policy.

OpenLV – Your Local Electricity Data

The OpenLV Project is trialling an open software platform in electricity substations that can monitor substation performance and electricity demand. The LV-CAP™ platform is designed to integrate with third-party products ...

Delivering Smart Energy Systems

The aim of this paper is to look at some of the key directions in which electricity generation, use and supply will change. We have chosen to examine innovation in ...

Growth Prospects for Energy Storage

Regen's market insight document explores the next wave of energy storage, how the market may develop as well as the challenges and growth opportunities for co-locating storage with generation and ...

Transformation Moment: Can Britain make it to the Age of Clean?

This pamphlet outlines some of the ways Britain can get to the 'Age of Clean' which will involve, amongst other things, re-thinking the grid, consuming less before producing more, making ...

Carbon Trust app development

The Carbon Trust are working with a DNO in developing an app that we think would be of particular interested to community energy users. The core feature of the app ...

Energy Storage in the UK: An Overview

​The aim of this report is to increase knowledge of the industry among various stakeholders.This report encompasses an updated summary of the current technologies; support available internationally for storage technologies; ...

Energy Entrepreneurs Fund: Phase 6

The objective of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) is to support, through capital grants, the development and demonstration of innovative technologies and/or processes in the areas of energy efficiency, generation ...

Local Supply: Options For Selling Your Energy Locally (3rd ed.)

​The third edition of this paper by Regen focuses on the most recent innovations and thinking in local supply models. It looks at where there are sources of value from ...

Electricity Network Innovation For Communities

Regen's new, updated guide on electricity network innovation.

Onsite Solar PV - Battery Storage Ready Reckoner

The purpose of this tool is to enable a quick, high-level appraisal of how battery storage may impact the economics of a solar PV project by enabling the host site ...

Social Innovation and Community Energy

This report encompasses a review and analysis of the existing literature as well as interviews with representatives of major social innovation and community energy initiatives across Europe. It maps the ...

Energy Approaches with an Application Potential in Biogas

ISABEL report on “Region-Specific Social Innovation and Community Energy Approaches with an Application Potential in Biogas”.

Evolution of Community Energy in the UK

​This UKERC Working Paper seeks to understand the factors contributing to the emergence, growth and nature of community energy in the UK.

Community Energy Infographics

Useful infographics focusing on the activities as well as social and monetary benefits gained from community energy schemes from Community Energy England's 2017 State of the Sector Report.

Community Energy Videos

These short films from CSE's PlanLoCaL toolkit aim to support communities and groups who wish to set up community-scale renewable energy projects

Community-led Heat Projects: A Toolkit for Heat Networks

Community-led heat projects: a toolkit for heat networks

A Flim by The Small Wind Co-Op

A short film explaining the project with footage from our sites in Scotland and Wales

Lobbying your MP on Community Energy

Hope for the Future community energy briefing.

Evolution of Community Energy in the UK

​This UKERC Working Paper seeks to understand the factors contributing to the emergence, growth and nature of community energy in the UK.

Community Energy in the UK

Anne Chapman, Director of Green House Think Tank, reports on community energy in the UK as part of the GEF transnational project Energy Democracy, Changing the Energy System.