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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.
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
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
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
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
Local Authority Community Energy Funds On Wednesday 7th December 2022 Community Energy London held a workshop for Local Authorities on the topic of Local Authority Community Energy Funds. This event provided valuable information for local authority officers looking to engage with community-led energy projects within their authorities. The Recording SLIDES
Community Energy Potential Map Launch CEL Project Officer Tim Minshall launched our brand new Community Energy London Potential Map in beta mode during November/December’s monthly meeting. The recording can be found on our YouTube page by clicking on this link or below. Tim’s presentation can be accessed here. The map
Powering Places of Worship with Community Energy On Wednesday 23rd November 2022 Community Energy London held its first event on Places of Worship and Community Energy, with a particular focus on Churches and the Diocese in London. This event provided valuable information for faith communities and places of worship looking
Community Energy Peer Mentoring programme CEL’s Community Energy Peer Mentoring programme originally ran from November 2022 – March 2023 – concurrently to LCEF6, but due to popular demand we have extended this. There is currently no deadline but do apply as soon as possible or needed as sessions are filling
Smarter Energy Communities On Tuesday 8th November 2022 Community Energy London held the second of three Technology Spotlight Events, focusing on opportunities for the incorporation of Smart and Flexibility services in Community Energy projects. This event provided valuable information for community energy groups looking to engage in smart energy projects
LED-ing The Way Nadia Smith (Director of CEL and SELCE) and Paul Dallas (Director of SE24) presented this workshop at last night’s monthly meeting. Please check this link to watch the recording on our YouTube or check out below. Thank you so much to Nadia and Paul for their time
Community Solar: Future Trends and New Market Opportunities On Friday 30th September 2022 Community Energy London held the first of our three Technology Spotlight Events, focusing on community-led rooftop Solar PV. This event provided valuable information for community energy groups looking to engage in rooftop solar PV and those who
Winter Support from London’s Communities Helping Struggling Londoners People across Community Energy London came together when the scale of the Winter Crisis 2022/23 became apparent to try to get the best examples of help for cold Londoners spread over the whole Capital. CEL members were already leaders in ‘Energy Cafes’
