Clean Community Energy
On behalf of the members and committee of REPOWERBalcombe, I wish to express sadness upon learning of the passing in August of Anthony Woolhouse. Anthony served on REPOWER Balcombe’s committees as a director for about 5 years until 2023 when failing health led to him stepping …
Tom Parker, our chairman since 2016, resigned at the end of May. Every member of the management committee is sad to see Tom leave us. He has been a key member of the team since its foundation, which started in 2013 following demonstrations against oil …
This year’s AGM will take place at The Victory Hall at Balcombe on Saturday 12th April 2025 at 10:30 am. We had previously arranged to hold our AGM at Worth Abbey, but we’re now unable to rely on this in time to meet legal requirements …
A 10-year success story for Balcombe Many thanks to all who visited our site at this year’s fete, as we celebrated a Balcombe village success story spanning 10 years. We’ve generated over 1.2 gigawatt hours of electricity at prices well below market rates for our …
Our foundation was inspired by the demonstrations during 2013 against Cuadrilla’s exploration for oil at Lower Stumble, Balcombe. A small group of local people with support from renewable energy experts, decided that, instead of demonstrating, we’d show there was a better, far more environmentally friendly, …
One of the founding principles of Repower was to support education about climate change and how we could all make a contribution. Sussex Green Living asked us to support their Youth Eco Forum (YEF), a group aged between 14-21 years old, of environmentally concerned people, …
Having started to spread the word about the availability of grants from Repower more widely around the communities surrounding Balcombe, our first application arrived in March 2023 from Turners Hill Parish Council. As a Parish Council, we have been working on a project to upgrade …
Saturday 15th April at the Victory Hall. Doors open at 10 am for refreshments. Our formal AGM will be preceded by a talk starting at 10:30, on The Future We Want by Nicola Peel, a Solutionist who has spent over 20 years working in the …
BBC iPlayer – Politics South East – 22/01/2023 REPOWERBalcombe again features on a major TV channel, as BBC South East Politics visits us for an update on our achievements, almost 10 years after the huge demonstrations against fossil fuel explorations at Lower Stumble, which inspired …
Can local communities make a difference in the transition to net zero? By Emily Wither The government has said that it wants local communities to take ‘bold action’ to help the country meet its climate change targets. But how much difference can they really make …