Based in Exeter, Co Charger is a new sustainable scheme that aims to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. It is part of the family that includes Co Cars, Co Bikes and Co Delivery. Recently ECOE secretary David Thompson spoke with Co Charger founder, Joel Teague. They discussed the contribution that the company could make […]
08/09/2020
Watch again: Wise Up About Solar Power with ECOE’s Webinar
Watch again: Wise Up About Solar Power with ECOE’s Webinar Energy generation, distribution and use is changing radically. Today, renewable energy is cheaper than ever, whereas fossil-fuels are dangerous for climate change. Meanwhile, new technologies could radically re-shape our homes, workplaces and communities. ECOE therefore wants to improve people’s energy literacy. We want everybody to […]
03/09/2020
Meet the new people at ECOE: Stacia Ryder
The ECOE team continues to evolve with time. We’re keeping you up to date on the new faces to you so that you don’t wonder who they are when you meet them. Here, we introduce Stacia Ryder, who is helping assess ECOE’s impact and support our funding bids and communications. What is your role at […]
29/07/2020
Celebrating Gill Wyatt’s ECOE legacy
Gill Wyatt, Exeter Community Energy founding director and former chair and chief executive officer, has left the board. She has also passed her role as manager of ECOE’s Healthy Homes for Wellbeing project to Tara Bowers. However Gill will continue as the Healthy Homes Community Liaison Officer and a Home Energy Advisor. ECOE would not […]
28/07/2020
Healthy Homes prepares for the next season
It has been a strange few months for everyone, not least for our Healthy Homes team. They are usually out and about in the community giving talks, running drop in clinics and visiting people in their homes. Instead they have all been working from home. As we approach the next winter season, which for this […]
28/07/2020
The role of grid-scale energy storage in deep decarbonisation
ECOE member Jeff Ridley recently attended an Imperial College London seminar with the above title. Jeff produced the following summary to share with the organisation. The notion here was that we will need seasonal timescale energy storage to fill the gaps in renewable generation. Clearly battery storage can handle the day-to-day fluctuations. However, the presenter […]
28/07/2020
AGM 2020: ECOE progresses to new horizons
It’s typical of COVID-19 times that Exeter Community Energy had to take this year’s Annual General Meeting online. But it was a nice change from the background pandemic that the news was generally good. Our ongoing solar power generation and fuel poverty projects are doing well. As of the financial year end on January 31 […]
16/07/2020
Meet the new people at ECOE: Rory McNeile
The ECOE team continues to evolve with time. We’re keeping you up to date on the new faces to you so that you don’t wonder who they are when you meet them. Here, we introduce Rory McNeile, who is focusing on our green retrofit work What is your role at ECOE Rory? I am delighted […]
27/05/2020
ECOE AGM on July 15 – put it in your diary
We invite all our members and supporters to join us from 6:30-8pm on Wednesday July 15 for the Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) Annual General Meeting online, via Microsoft Teams, which should work on your computer via your internet browser. As usual, we’ll be reviewing the year’s activities, and showing how our solar PV installations are […]
15/05/2020
Help us provide emergency support and basic necessities to low income households
Visit our Just Giving page to make a donation At Exeter Community Energy, since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, we have seen a threefold increase in the level of requests for support from our Healthy Homes Hardship Fund, which was launched last winter. Our Winter Warmth campaign generated almost £5000 for the Hardship Fund, […]
