Solar Share Offer NOW CLOSED We’re delighted to announce that as of Thursday November 26th we have received investment totalling £390,000 which means we have raised our entire target funds. This is a huge success in such a short period – far more than we expected – and means that we’re now able to go ahead […]
16/11/2015
Share Launch Event
On Tuesday November 17th, ECOE will be hosting our Share Launch Event at the offices of Stephens Scown Solicitors on Southernhay in Exeter. The event will run from 6.45pm through until 9pm and is open to anybody interested in investing in ECOE or simply coming along to celebrate the launch of this Community Share Offer […]
18/09/2015
Last chance to be part of Solar PV1
With the government FiT review in Jan and planned reductions up to as high as 87%, we are now working against the clock to sign up as many sites as possible for Solar PV1 There are two ways of doing this ECOE pre-registering the roof and as a community energy group we then have […]
18/06/2015
ECOE Public Meeting and AGM
ECOE Public Meeting & AGM – 22nd June 6pm Stephens Scown Solicitors Meeting Room, Curzon House, Southernhay We’d like to invite everyone to our public meeting to review our first year and look forward to what we can achieve in the future. ECOE Exec Chair Gill Wyatt will open the session with a presentation on […]
12/06/2015
Ground mount solar: An update and clarification
Ground mount solar: An update and clarification ECOE wants to clarify the situation regarding previously saying the ground mount solar opportunity involved no high grade agricultural land. We initially thought the offer involved a 5MW site (originally 7.5MW including Grade 2 land) + a 4MW site ie the Grade 2 land had been taken out. […]
13/03/2015
News from the community energy sector
News from the community energy sector Status of community energy co-ops Over the last six months, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed regulations that put at risk the way co-operatives are defined and how they raise capital. This has particularly affected the community energy organisations set up as a cooperative (ECOE is a community […]
12/03/2015
Local events
Latest news about Solar PV 1 A Global Climate Deal? The science of climate change and how we deal with it Thursday 19th March, 18.30, Exeter Central Library Organised by the Exeter & District United Nations Association with speakers Dr. Doug Smith from The Met Office Hadley Centre and Ian Bateman, Climate Change Officer at […]
12/03/2015
Latest news about Solar PV1
Challenges and opportunities continue to arise in the development of our first community renewable project. From chatting to our supporters in Exeter and friends in the community energy sector around the country, we are often reminded that what we have done so far is a big achievement and what we want to do is not […]
