Bristol Community Energy Strategy

The result of community projects and city wide partnerships working effectively together.

Bristol community energy strategy.

As part of the energy service s work a council owned energy supplier bristol energy was established in 2015 with the ethos of being a force for social good. The result of community projects and city wide partnerships working effectively together. This bristol community strategy for energy has been developed through the bristol energy network by local community groups and the organisations that they work with. The community energy movement that we started in 2015 continues to grow and flourish adapting regularly to changes in policy and approach proving continually that bristol is a resilient city with an unyielding passion for its people.

We work in partnership with the bristol energy network to support and grow the ever growing number of community energy projects in bristol. Bristol community energy fund is a scheme set up by bristol city council with seed funding provided by the department of energy and climate change. A collectively developed community energy strategy for bristol driving initiatives that will put bristol on the map creating bristol s best future and establishing bristol firsts in community energy and energy efficiency. The bristol community strategy for energy.

The strategy sets out aims and steps for community level action on energy and seeks to enable local. Low carbon ambition in 2017 three years ahead of schedule the council met and exceeded its target to reduce corporate carbon emissions by 50 against a 2005 baseline. Community energy covers many different types of community getting involved in different ways to help meet the uk s energy challenges. Alongside the strategy mr ferguson also launched bristol solar city an initiative that aims to make bristol the uk s solar capital.

Planlocal s renewable energy advice for community energy projects. The strategy can be accessed here. Department of energy climate change s community energy strategy march 2015. A collectively developed community energy strategy for bristol driving initiatives that will put bristol on the map creating bristol s best future and establishing bristol firsts in community energy and energy efficiency.

The strategy is the first of its kind in bristol and the uk and sets out to put communities at the heart of bristol s energy system the strategy has been developed through the bristol energy network ben with over 50 individuals and groups contributing in the previous six months. Last friday mayor george ferguson launched the bristol community strategy for energy at a lively solar pavilion on college green. Social and economic benefits of community energy schemes by the national trust.