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Local Electricity Supply Models for Community Energy Yesterday on Wednesday 10th September 2025 CEL hosted a webinar that explored the growing number of models for creating local electricity markets and novel supply arrangements and how to distinguish from the hype focussing on helping community groups navigate this complex field. Speaker:
The past few years have seen community energy activity grow at pace in London with numerous renewable and energy efficiency projects delivered by a growing number of groups and practitioners. Across the city, community energy groups are helping schools, cultural venues, places of worship and other public buildings to generate
Learn About Community Shares with SELCE – webinar South East London Community Energy is offering a free lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 7th August at 1pm to 2pm. This webinar will be educational for anyone new to investing in community energy cooperatives covering the benefits for individuals and the wider community. Selce
Thank you so much to our speakers and everyone who joined us last week for CEL’s 2024 annual conference.We had a great afternoon of questions, discussion and peer-to-peer learning. Please find below our agenda, aims, slideshow presentation and link to our live-tweeted thread. Community Energy London’s (CEL) Annual Conference 2024
Barnet Council in collaboration with Community Energy London (CEL) is to run a series of four capacity-raising events in July 2024 exploring routes to support the growth of community energy action across the borough. Community Energy London’s Potential Map has identified 574 community buildings in Barnet. Matching these sites with the Greater
Community Energy London would like to invite you to attend The Future of Community Energy in London, our annual conference on Thursday 18th July from 1:30pm – 5:30pm in-person at Hackney Town Hall. Location: Assembly Hall, Hackney Town Hall, Mare St, London E8 1EA. Access via Reading Lane entrance. Registration
Thank you to everyone who joined us last week – especially considering that it was the night before the four-day weekend. It was great to see so many of you and a big thank you to all of our wonderful speakers and Jason Pritchard for organising the venue for us.
Register now to join this free event in February at Space4 in Finsbury Park. Speakers include Éva Goudouneix from Repowering London and Power Up North London. Event Details: Time & Date: Thursday 8th February, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Location: SPACE4 (black gate entrance, 2nd floor), 113-115 Fonthill Road London N4 3HH Community
On Thursday – 30th November 2023 – Community Energy London celebrated our Winter Gathering at Lost In Brixton. We would like to thank everybody who came along and joined us for an evening of festive fun. Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last year, to watch
This morning Community Energy London (CEL) attended the launch of the second round of Hackney Council’s Community Energy Fund. Hackney’s newly elected Mayor Caroline Woodley and Councillor Mete Coban welcomed the new scheme followed by presentations from Jason Powell, Hackney Light & Power on the outcomes from round one and
SE24 and Joju Solar are running an online training session on rooftop solar projects primarily for SE24 volunteers but they’ve kindly opened it up to CEL members. Event details: Tuesday 10th October, 18:30 – 20:30 Please email [email protected] if you would like to join.
Coop News provides a great round up of CEL’s Chair Syed Ahmed comments during his presentation at Community Energy England’s Summer Conference ‘Connecting Communities‘ held at the Coram Centre in London. 29 September 2023
Join us on Thursday 28th July from 4pm at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens for our second annual social picnic! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cel-ebration-picnic-tickets-669347655857?aff=oddtdtcreator
As London Climate Action Week continues, Mayor launches new £500m fund to support net zero by 2030 Green Finance Fund will lend up to £500m to projects focussed on energy efficiency, clean transport or renewable energy First projects approved include solar panels on the roof of the London Stadium and
Leonie Cooper is the London Assembly Member for Merton and Wandsworth, a seat she has represented since May 2016. She also serves as a Councillor in Wandsworth. Prior to entering politics Leonie worked as a Sustainability Manager for a large Housing group and as a Sustainability Consultant. She is Deputy Leader
Our Conference – Full Power Scaling Up Community Energy Action in London is tomorrow – Wednesday 30th June – at City Hall from 2pm. Part of London Climate Action Week (LCAW2023) The past few years have seen significant growth in the number of community energy projects in London which has
CEL Case Studies Community Energy London started working on a series of case studies in late 2022 aiming to show the wide variety of projects and expertise of our member groups. Case studies also give those new to community energy a chance to better understand sector. The case studies are
The third in our series of short films has just been released! This film explores Aldgate Solar Power’s first project where they installed solar panels on the roofs of the Middlesex Street Estate in the City of London. You will hear from Directors of ASP as well as community members
In association with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Community Energy, CEL hosted an event on Thursday 16th March in Parliament to launch their vision for the sector by 2030 with the aim of establishing 1000 community energy projects across the city by the end of this decade. To
In association with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Community Energy, CEL hosted an event on Thursday 16 March 2023 in Parliament to launch their vision for the sector by 2030 with the aim of establishing 1000 community energy projects across the city by the end of this decade. Alongside the
A Vision for Community Energy Join Community Energy London and the APPG on Community Energy on Thursday 16th March from 5-7pm in the House of Commons to launch our Vision for Community Energy in London. Community energy action is growing at pace across the city, supported through the Mayor’s London Community
View the case study here. Community Energy London started working on a series of case studies in late 2022 aiming to show the wide variety of projects and expertise of our member groups. Case studies also give those new to community energy a chance to better understand sector. If you
View the case study here. Community Energy London started working on a series of case studies in late 2022 aiming to show the wide variety of projects and expertise of our member groups. Case studies also give those new to community energy a chance to better understand sector. If you
View the case study here. Community Energy London started working on a series of case studies in late 2022 aiming to show the wide variety of projects and expertise of our member groups. Case studies also give those new to community energy a chance to better understand sector. If you
View the case study here. Community Energy London started working on a series of case studies in late 2022 aiming to show the wide variety of projects and expertise of our member groups. Case studies also give those new to community energy a chance to better understand sector. If you
Brent Pure Energy x Capital City Academy This film explores Brent Pure Energy’s successful project to install solar panels on Capital City Academy, a large secondary school in Willesden, north-west London. The final install was over 600 pv panels and will save the school over £10,000 a year as well as
Power Up North London x Caxton House Power Up North London has been working with Caxton House in Islington over a number of years. This has ranged from hosting energy advice sessions to installing LED light bulbs and triple glazing. They are currently studying the feasibility of installing a heat
Community Energy England Awards – Case Studies As you have hopefully learned by now CEL was very happy to win the Community Energy Champion (Team) Award last week. Community Energy England have very helpfully put together a webpage on all the nominees and winners of all 12 awards. Check it
Version 2 of CEL Project Guides released In 2021 Community Energy London released guidance for groups looking to develop projects using technologies as Solar PV, Air Source Heat Pumps, LED Lighting, EV Charging and in Energy Advice. We are pleased to announce the launch of version 2 of these guides
Guidance for groups on LED retrofitting projects. View the guide here.
Guidance for groups on heat pump retrofits. View the guide here.
Guidance for groups on providing energy advice. View the report here.
This guide sets out the process for setting up a local authority community energy fund using funds from carbon offsetting. Includes examples of boroughs such as Islington who have already done this. Aimed at Councillors, council officers and groups to use when working with their councils. View the guide here.
This map has been developed to help community energy groups find promising development opportunities and for policy makers to visually explore the potential of community energy in London. Data from the London Solar Opportunity Map, London Heat Map and the London Building Stock Model have been matched to community building types and the data can
