Brighton Energy Co-operative

Brighton Energy Limited

Type	Consumer Co-operative
Industry	Renewable Energy
Founded	15 November 2010
Headquarters	Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom
Key people	Will Cottrell, Chair
Website	brightonenergy.org.uk

Brighton Energy Co-operative is a cooperative based in Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom that operates renewable energy plants. It is incorporated as a Community Benefit Society under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act. Live operations include 132 kWp of photovoltaic solar panels, installed in 2012, located across three sites in the city: St George's Church in Kemptown, City Coast Church in Portslade and the Hove Enterprise Centre at Shoreham Port.

In 2013, it launched a second community share offer to raise up to £616,000 to purchase and install up to 565 kWp of photovoltaic capacity, mainly on huge sheds at Shoreham.^[1]

↑ Shaw, Malcolm (2 February 2014). "Solar project a shining example says Green MP". ITV News. Retrieved 10 April 2014.

Electricity generation in South East England

Power stations

Biomass

Active	Slough

Closed	Didcot A (co-fired) Kingsnorth (co-fired)

Coal

Closed	Brighton A + B Cowes Didcot A (co-fired) Earley Eastbourne Broomgrove Kingsnorth (co-fired) Littlebrook A, B + C Northfleet Osney Richborough Slough

Gas

Active	Cowes Damhead Creek Didcot B Grain Humbly Grove Hythe Marchwood Medway Sevington Shoreham Storrington

Closed	Hastings Slough

Incinerators/Waste

Active	Allington Quarry Chineham Isle of Wight Marchwood Newhaven Portsmouth Slough

Nuclear

Active	Dungeness B

Closed	Dungeness A

Refused/Cancelled	Dungeness C

Oil

Closed	Kingsnorth (co-fired) Fawley Grain Littlebrook A, B + C, D Marchwood Northfleet Richborough

Solar

Active	Brighton Energy Co-operative Westmill Solar Co-operative

Wind

Active	Green Park Gunfleet Sands Kentish Flats London Array Romney Marsh Thanet Westmill Wind Co-operative

Proposed/Future	Navitus Bay Rampion

Organisations

Brighton Electric Light Company
Centrica
Expro International Group
Hammond Electric Light Company
UK Power Networks
Pre-nationalisation electric power companies
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