Thanks to our four brilliant speakers who made our Public Meeting such a dynamic and worthwhile occasion. Helen underlined the importance of community energy groups in any national strategy to achieve net zero. She highlighted key events later this year…
by Jim Belben, SE24 Director and Company Secretary Last week I attended Jeremy Brackpool’s environmental master class. His title intrigued me – ‘Living net zero in Herne Hill’ is what I am aiming for and many others are too. Jeremy’s…
By Nadia Smith, LED project leader If you’re like me, your parents would have encouraged you to save, save and save some more. I still remember the excitement I felt when seeing a £20 note slip out of my card…
As part of its over-arching inquiry into technological innovations and climate change, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee launched a call for evidence on Community Energy. SE24 was one of over 50 organisations which submitted written evidence to the…
This is a campaign message from Léonie Greene We are ramping up our efforts to safeguard the export tariff as soon as possible for solar power with a social media campaign, starting today, directing people to our campaign page on our website, which sets…
“Hello! My name is Will and I am the newest member of the SE24 team. Very much a local, I grew up in Dulwich (SE22 unfortunately), and attended Alleyn’s school for sixth form. I have just finished studying Engineering: Energy,…
Introduction We responded to the 2015 DECC consultations on both Pre-accreditation and the Review of the Feed-In tariff (FiT) scheme. This response contains some repeat information from those prior responses. There is also some updated information to inform you of…
Mark Hughes and Alan Jones have compiled our SE24 response to the government’s plans to end the Feed-in-Tariff. In summary, SE24 believes that abolition of the FIT regime will: make small to medium-sized community energy schemes unviable; reduce the generation…
One of SE24’s founder members, Angus Hanton, visited China recently. We asked him to write a blog for us about how the most populous country in the world is rising to the challenge of cleaning up its energy sector. China…
During January we are using our blog space to give each of the SE24 team the opportunity to share their vision. Harriet Lamb, vice-chair of SE24, shares her vision of what people can achieve when they work together in community.…