After a successful second year of ECOE’s Community Fund, it is now open for applications again. The fund is available for local community groups to apply for financing for projects that help to save energy and/or help to alleviate fuel poverty. For 2019, we have a total of £6,235 available. £3,000 comes from income from […]

Over the summer, Exeter Community Energy co-opted Joe Clarke to its Board of Directors. He will focus on building on the organisation’s already-stellar marketing and communications output. Joe approached Tara Bowers, ECOE’s Chair, after seeing the call for new Directors and volunteers following the 2019 AGM. Also, ECOE engages Joe’s general interest in sustainability and […]

A new year will soon be upon us – yet climate and fuel poverty remain pressing problems. If you’re looking for a meaningful way to act, we have exciting opportunities for you. Interested? If so, read on for details: Monitoring and maintenance co-ordinator ECOE is looking for a monitoring and maintenance co-ordinator, to join our […]

Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) pride ourselves on our Community Fund. The Fund supports local people and community groups with projects that save energy, fight fuel poverty, and support environmental causes. We awarded the 2019 Fund to Art and Energy, Pinhoe Road Baptist Church, the Estuary League of Friends, and the Music in Devon Initiative. Of […]

Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) has successfully pre-registered two local community centre sites for new solar PV installations. We are now working on leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) with The Beacon Community Centre and Westbank Healthy Living Centre. Pre-registration enables this even though the government closed its Feed-In Tariffs (FITs) scheme to new applications on […]

This year ECOE made £4,100 available via its community fund, and we allocated it in January, as previously discussed in this post. We granted £1,400 to Art and Energy for creative solar workshops making renewable energy both fun and inspirational. In May they told ECOE that ‘This project is underway and is going according to plan.’ […]

2018 had everything for Exeter Community Energy (ECOE), including progress and recognition, but also change and challenges. Even as some of our solar PV sites entered their fourth year and we strove to keep them running well, we are also developing two new sites. Healthy Homes for Wellbeing’s great work on fighting fuel poverty, and […]

On May 23rd our director, environmental social scientist Patrick Devine-Wright, chaired a public event that asked the above question at the University of Exeter. The University’s new Global Systems Institute organised the event, together with ECOE and Transition Exeter. As a result of this topic’s importance, the largest lecture theatre in the University – with another […]

Peter Bowers and Miles Davey stood down from the board at the last AGM, so we need new directors! This is your chance to do something real to address the climate emergency. We welcome anyone with the interest and passion to help ECOE. We’d be especially interested if you can help with marketing, events, developing […]