December 1, 2020
BWCE are Recruiting!
BWCE are recruiting for two new posts - an administrator and a Marketing & Communications Officer. Deadline 1st February 2021.
December 1, 2020
BWCE working with Parish Councils
BWCE wants to help communities to control, own and benefit from renewable energy in their local area. Find out how we can work with Parish Councils to achieve…
December 1, 2020
Warm & Green Homes webinar
See the presentation from our November 2020 Warm & Green Homes webinar plus links to other other useful information, advice and funding.
December 1, 2020
The Energy Demand Challenge
Renewable energy development will be held back unless we find ways of enabling householders to become more flexible in the way that they use energy on a daily…
November 3, 2020
Flex Community gets a big boost
Flex Community has been chosen to be one of the demonstration projects for ReDream, a European wide project initiated by Stemy Energy and Comillas University.……
October 29, 2020
Green Electricity Tariffs
Can you guarantee a green electricity tariff is supplying 100% renewable energy and will you need to pay over the odds for it? The answers to these questions…
October 28, 2020
Community Fund profile – Share and Repair
The BWCE Community Fund has helped Share and Repair in its mission to repair, reduce, reuse and recycle. Lorna Montgomery tells us how they are growing and…
October 26, 2020
Community Fund profile – Energy Sparks
BWCE Community Fund support helped Energy Sparks to test its website and energy education programme in local schools. The project has now gone nationwide.
September 29, 2020
Can we create an EV charging network?
BWCE has secured funding from the Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) to test the viability of a community owned electric vehicle charging network running on…
September 29, 2020
Sophie answers questions on the Community Fund
Our Community Fund is open until 2nd November. Chair of Fund trustees Sophie Hooper Lea tells us why she got involved and shares her thoughts on the fund.
September 29, 2020
Community Fund profile – Greenlinks
Bath Mind's Greenlinks project received a BWCE Community Fund grant in January 2020. Amanda Bolton, Greenlinks Manager, tells us about the great work they are…
August 27, 2020
BWCE AGM 12th September 2020
Our 2020 AGM will be held online from 2.30 to 4.30pm on Saturday 12th September. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of the launch of BWCE. As we enter our…
August 27, 2020
Community Fund guidelines updated
The BWCE Community Fund is due to launch on 14th September, subject to confirmation from members at the AGM. As a response to the Covid-19 crisis, fund…
August 25, 2020
Smart Household Energy
During our recent events on managing energy demand BWCE board member Sonya Bedford talked about the benefits she had received from having a smart meter and a…
July 31, 2020
Managing Energy Demand
Following our June 2020 Living with Renewables webinar on Managing Energy Demand we have produced information on the ‘greenest’ time to use energy, time of use…
July 31, 2020
BWCE Annual General Meeting, Sat 12th September
This year is our 10th anniversary! We had been hoping to celebrate with our members and supporters in person but we have been unable to do this. Our 2020 AGM…
July 31, 2020
We’ve raised half a million!
Our latest share offer has passed the half a million mark. Thanks to all our new members and the existing members who have invested more in community owned…
May 5, 2020
Your chance to support renewable friendly planning policies
80% of the population support onshore wind so why are there so few wind turbines in Bath & North East Somerset?
May 5, 2020
Are you planning to install a heat pump or an EV charging point?
Our Next Generation funded Flex Community project aims to combine home energy assets with smart technology designed by Stemy Energy to better balance demand…
May 5, 2020
Community Solar 2020 aims for a big power surge!
Thanks to our Solar Roof Spotters we have had over 100 enquiries to Community Solar 2020 and we are currently discussing a number of viable projects with local…
May 5, 2020
Your chance to support renewable friendly planning policies
80% of the population support onshore wind so why are there so few wind turbines in Bath & North East Somerset? Why don’t more houses have solar panels? How…
March 25, 2020
Covid 19 – Our response
Due to the current COVID-19 health emergency BWCE, in common with most organisations, is changing the way it operates.
January 31, 2020
BWCE Community Fund awards £28,000 to boost local community projects
An eco-therapy allotment, an edible food forest, a nappy library, energy ambassadors in schools, energy advice events, thermal home surveys, a solar powered…
January 31, 2020
Flex Community update
Applications have closed for our Flex Community pilot project on hot water heating and we are currently installing the Stemy Energy controller and app in a…
January 31, 2020
Solar Roof Spotters Guide available to download
Our Roof Spotters Guide with all the information to enable you to spot a viable roof for our Community Solar 2020 project is now available to download as a PDF…
December 18, 2019
How can you support BWCE in 2020?
We have had a good response to our Supporters Survey but we need more to build up a better picture of the geographical coverage of our supporter base, the…
December 18, 2019
3rd Flex Community public meeting, 9th January
Our Flex Community project is well underway with half of our target of 30 volunteers recruited to the pilot group and the first four Stemy Energy hot water…
November 15, 2019
BWCE launches Community Solar 2020
BWCE are pleased to announce the launch of Community Solar 2020, a new programme to install community owned solar pv in the Bath & West area. Community Solar…
August 28, 2019
Flex Community – an innovative approach to reducing carbon emissions
BWCE are excited to be embarking on a partnership with Stemy Energy, a company set up, as a spin off from Comillas University in Madrid and MIT, to promote a…
August 28, 2019
BWCE is the UK’s 2nd largest Energy & Environment Co-op
According to the Co-op Economy 2019 report from Co-operatives UK we are the 2nd largest Energy & Environment Co-op in the country! The Co-op Economy is the…
June 28, 2019
Riverside noticeboard for the Old Mill hydro project
BWCE have collaborated with another local environmental group to install an information board on the South side of the River Avon at Bathampton enabling…
June 26, 2019
The Past, Present & Future of Community Energy
On Saturday 15th June 2019 BWCE and Comtek organised an event on the Past, Present & Future of Community Energy to raise awareness of the history of…
April 30, 2019
Responses from B&NES Council election candidates to BWCE questions
In the run up to the Bath & North East Somerset Council elections on 2nd May 2019 we sent a series of questions to all political parties standing candidates in…