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BWCE chair Pete Capener writes: The Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) recently launched a ‘Call for Evidence on Community Energy’ with the intention of collecting information to help them develop a Community Energy Strategy in the Autumn. The strategy will outline what Government and others could do to ensure community energy projects [...]

BWCE wins RegenSW Green Energy Award Dinners at Regen SW Green Energy Awards are always grand affairs, held for many years in the Assembly Rooms in Bath. Packed to the molded Georgian ceilings with the great and good from the renewable energy world. This year’s dinner was no exception and was made that much tastier [...]

After a recent trip up north I took a detour to a couple of the most well known community hydro projects. They’re both pretty impressive Archimedean screw projects funded by community share issues. The first was the Settle Hydro project in Settle, North Yorkshire, the other the Torrs Hydro project which is sited in a [...]

BWCE, in the form of our chair Pete Capener, have been invited to take part in a Community Energy Contact Group set up by the Energy Minister, Greg Barker. There have been two meetings of the group so far where Greg Barker has highlighted the key questions he would like to see addressed and the [...]

BWCE was successful in its bid for funding to the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s ‘Local Energy Assessment Fund’ for £37,000 in January. As part of our community work, 3 of our ‘generating’ schools (Ralph Allen, Oldfield and Newbridge Primary) as well as 2 additional primary schools (at Bathford and Colerne) have benefited from [...]