Author: Malcolm Kenward

Holy Trinity C of E Primary School – Generating

Holy Trinity C of E Primary School – Generating

We’re Generating! Thursday 15th February 2018 Despite the inclement weather earlier this week, all the panels have been installed and are now generating. Well done to everyone involved in the project. Another great success for the Cooperative. Wednesday 14th February 2018 “Good progress has been …

2018 AGM: 14th April at Imberhorne School

2018 AGM: 14th April at Imberhorne School

Our AGM is on Saturday 14th April at 10.30 am at Imberhorne School, East Grinstead.All our members are welcome, along with their friends and family. Come and see the solar installation at the school funded by Repower Balcombe. Please make a note in your diary …

LED Lights for West Hoathly School

LED Lights for West Hoathly School

During the autumn of 2017 REPOWERBalcombe provided a grant of £9,049 for the installation of LED lights in areas of the school where the lighting needed updating. This will reduce electricity consumption by about 5000kWh of electricity each year, saving an estimated £500 pa (at …

Everything’s Gone Green?

Everything’s Gone Green?

New Order’s song title suggests Everything’s Gone Green. Or has it?  There are positive indications about a gradual step away from fossil fuel consumption. Figures published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy suggest that renewable energy accounted for a quarter of the …

REPOWERBalcombe installs battery storage system at Turners Hill school

REPOWERBalcombe installs battery storage system at Turners Hill school

Turners Hill School, near East Grinstead, East Sussex, has recently installed 12kWh of battery storage to capture much of the spare electricity generated by the various renewable energy systems at the school. A grant of £16,158 to install the battery system was provided from REPOWERBalcombe’s …

Renewable co-op REPOWERBalcombe installs energy-saving lights at Imberhorne school

Renewable co-op REPOWERBalcombe installs energy-saving lights at Imberhorne school

REPOWERBalcombe, the Sussex renewable energy Co-operative, has provided a grant of £11,075 from its Community Benefit fund to install 158 new LED fittings and 18 PIRs (passive infrared sensors) at Imberhorne School, in East Grinstead, East Sussex. This is predicted to conserve more than 19,500 …

AGM: 22nd April 2017

AGM: 22nd April 2017

Our AGM is on Saturday 22nd April at 10.30 am at Turners Hill C of E Primary School.All our members are welcome, along with their friends and family. Come and see the solar installation at the school funded by Repower Balcombe. We’re delighted to have …

REPOWERBalcombe raise £110,000 to install Solar at two new Schools

REPOWERBalcombe raise £110,000 to install Solar at two new Schools

REPOWERBalcombe is delighted to announce that the recent share offer to add two new Schools and 100kWp PV solar to the Co-operative has successfully raised the full £110,000 needed. The £110,000 will be used to pay for the installation of 50 kWp of solar PV at …

New Share Offer – 8th March 2016

New Share Offer – 8th March 2016

  (THIS SHARE OFFER IS NOW CLOSED – THANK YOU FOR LOOKING)   REPOWERBalcombe is to add two new Schools and 100kWp PV solar to the Co-operative In 2015 REPOWERBalcombe installed 45kWp of solar photovoltaics (PV), at Grange Farm, Turners Hill School and Balcombe School. …

Solar farm in Balcombe ‘fracking village’ shelved due to Tory policies

Solar farm in Balcombe ‘fracking village’ shelved due to Tory policies

A project to generate renewable energy in the village at the centre of the UK’s first fracking protests has become the latest casualty of the shake-up of the government’s green policies.