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]

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 SEEBOARD Southern Electric