Matt Harvey at the Bike Shed, SW Regen Tuesday 23rd September 19.00 ECOE Executive Chair Gill Wyatt will be one of the guest speakers at The Element in the Room, where Regen SW poet in residence Matt Harvey will be performing material from his new illustrated book and giving out free copies. Gabriel Wondrausch of […]
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12/09/2014
We thought you might be interested to hear more about ECOE’s achievements and struggles since we started in February. In this special news feature we invite Dawn Rivers, Exeter City Council’s community involvement and inclusion officer, to interview ECOE Exec Chair Gill Wyatt, giving a look behind the scenes, an update on finding suitable roofs […]
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Thank you to everyone who took part in Pull the Plug on 12 October. We had some great photos of people taking the zero electricity challenge, including lots of our local politicians out and about in town asking shops to unplug anything they could do without. We managed to get over 300 plugs pulled during […]
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exeter’s energy future open forums to help change the way we use, produce and think about energy Tuesday 16 September 18.45 Learning from WREN With Dominic Comonte, WREN Operations Manager The Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network is a pioneer in the community energy sector. They have established a popular energy advice shop, promoted energy efficiency schemes […]
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ECOE out and about in the community this summer We love the summer. So many opportunities to get out in the sunshine, enjoy the company of our friends and neighbours and find out more about the amazing things people in our community get up to. Off Grid Festival ECOE Directors Sonya Bedford and Joe Smee […]
Continue reading... 24/06/2014
We had 24 green homes and other buildings opening their doors to the community over the weekend. There was a total of 140 visits made, with particular highlights being tours of Montgomery School and two of our own Directors inviting people into their green homes. With 96% of visitors who gave feedback committing to […]
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Help finance ECOE’s Future Projects We’ve been fortunate to receive funding that has covered our start-up costs and contributed to our development costs for Solar PV 1 – feasibility studies of roofs, preparing the business plan and financial modelling and overall project management. Our Share Offer in November 2015 raised over £390,000 in under […]
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Our first Community Share Offer is now closed £390,000 raised in under 3 weeks Offer Closed Thursday November 26th 2015 ECoE have closed our first share offer on November 26th 2015 after raising £390,000 to support installation of a portfolio of rooftop solar which will produce around 300kWp of energy for Exeter and East Devon. More details of […]
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Volunteer As a community run organisation we are always looking for people to help make Exeter Community Energy a success. Our ability to realise our potential depends on the expertise and enthusiasm of our volunteers. We have many different volunteer opportunities that range from a couple of hours a month to a day a […]
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Exeter Community Energy Launch Following the success of our ‘soft’ launch on Feb 4th come along for our official launch. There has been a lot of progress towards creating Exeter’s first source of community-owned solar power and we are very excited to share some details with you. There’ll be two opportunities to come and find […]
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