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CEL October Meeting 2025

30th October 2025 We had a fantastic session jam-packed with news, information and our upcoming events. View the slides using the button below. Click here

06/11/2025

CEL Event

CEL Webinar: Can Electrons Be Truly Local?

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:

11/09/2025

CEL Event

London Climate Action Week

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

02/07/2025

Learn About Community Shares With SELCE & Their Latest Share Offer

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

26/07/2024

The Future of Community Energy in London – CEL Conference 2024

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

26/07/2024

BarNet Zero

BarNet Zero: a series of capacity-raising workshops by CEL + Barnet Council

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

13/07/2024

The Future Of Community Energy In London: CEL’s Annual Conference

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

17/06/2024

Recap of March’s in-person meeting

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.

02/04/2024

Event: Why Should We Grow the Community Energy Sector?

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

13/12/2023

Community Energy London Winter Gathering

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

08/12/2023

Hackney Community Energy Fund Launch Round 2

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

23/11/2023

SE24 Online Training Session with Joju Solar

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.

06/10/2023

CEL at Connecting Communities 2023

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

03/10/2023

CEL-ebration Picnic!

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

30/06/2023

London Climate Action Week: Mayor launches new £500m fund to support net zero by 2030

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

29/06/2023

CEL Conference 2023: Full Power: Scaling Up Community Energy Action in London – who are our speakers?

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

29/06/2023

Full Power: Scaling Up Community Energy Action in London

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

29/06/2023

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Community Powered Retrofit for London

A study investigating the evidence base for a community-led approach to retrofit commissioned, by London Councils and delivered by Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL) and Dark Matter Labs (DML). View the study here.

02/06/2023

Written Case Studies

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

05/05/2023

Aldgate Solar Power x Middlesex Street Estate

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

05/04/2023

Study Launch: A Vision For Community Energy In London

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

17/03/2023

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A Vision for Community Energy in London

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

16/03/2023

A Vision For Community Energy

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

08/03/2023

LED Lighting

SE24 Sustainable Energy Case Study: Solar PV & LED installations

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

03/03/2023

rooftop solar

Aldgate Solar Power Case Study: Middlesex Street Estate

03/03/2023

Solar PV

Brent Pure Energy Case Study: Capital City Academy

03/03/2023

rooftop solar

North Kensington Community Energy Case Study: Solar PV

03/03/2023

schools

Brent Pure Energy x Capital City Academy

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

15/02/2023

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Power Up North London x Caxton House

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

15/02/2023

Community Energy England Awards – Case Studies

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

25/01/2023

Version 2 of Project Guides released

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

23/01/2023