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 […]
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 […]
(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. […]
We wanted our solar dream to inspire people all over the world, but the government have brought that dream to an end with a series of policy changes that are devastating to the community energy sector and the wider renewable energy sector in the UK. Our plan was to […]
Wednesday 11th November 8:00pm to 10:00pm We’re very excited to be hosting world-renowned energy expert Jeremy Leggett, who will be visiting Balcombe to give a talk entitled ‘The Global Energy Challenge – and Us’. Jeremy is the author of five books on energy and climate change, the founding director of […]
Last Thursday was high drama at Mid Sussex council planning committee with the decision being made on our planning application for our 5MW solar farm at Chiddinglye farm just outside West Hoathly. Several Repower Balcombe members, alongside our friends at 10:10 and our planning and […]
In February we had our first public share offer, which was successful in raising £49,000 from about 50 local investors, to fund solar installations on Balcombe and Turners Hill primary schools. Since then we’ve been pushing hard to get all the contracts and paperwork done […]
10:10 the climate change charity who have been supporting us over the last couple of years put a call out for comments on our planning application for the solar farm at Chiddinglye Farm and they got a very big response. See the map below for the comments […]
At this year’s Balcombe village fete we all enjoyed a lovely warm sunny day. This was particularly significant for REPOWERBalcombe, as at our pitch we were asking visitors to guess just how much energy the cooperative’s solar panels at Grange Farm would generate between dawn […]
We are happy to reveal that we have handed in our planning application for the Chiddinglye Farm site in West Hoathly. This follows the overwhelmingly positive response we received from West Hoathly locals at our community consultation event in May and our delightful visit to a similar-sized solar […]
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