September 2012, Sabine Hielscher. The Brighton Energy Co-op is a community renewable energy project based in Brighton & Hove. The Co-op currently consists of a chairman, Will Cottrell, two directors, Damian Tow and Ross Gilbert and three advisors, Danni Craker, Jeremy Leggett and John Smith. The Brighton Energy Co-op aims to run and finance renewable … Continue reading »
BEC launches their community energy share issue Sabine Hielscher writes: On Wednesday the 16th of May 2012, the Brighton Energy Coop launched their share invitation to the public at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton. It was fascinating to see how the team’s hard work had come together to finally arrive at this event. What … Continue reading »
Sabine Hielscher writes: The move of becoming a legally recognised entity (creating a formal structure recognised in law) is a critical step for numerous community renewable energy initiatives when trying to progress their project from a mere idea. But how do community energy groups formalise and at what point in their development? How do they … Continue reading »
Sabine Hielscher writes: The last blog entry about BEC discussed their start up phase. It was relatively easy to represent this phase in a linear timeline, as one event was followed by the next – they corresponded to relatively discrete entities. As Will already pointed out during the last meeting ‘things became more difficult’ once … Continue reading »
Sabine Hielscher writes: Over the next few months the CISE team will join BEC’s team meetings and talk with them about their journey to learn more about the cooperative. We will share some of our experiences on this blog: The development of Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC) was initiated as a response to the failed Copenhagen … Continue reading »
The CISE team is working with the Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC). Over the next few months we will join their team meetings and talk with them about their journey to learn more about the cooperative. We will share some of our experiences on this blog – so watch this space. BEC aims to develop the … Continue reading »
