Members of Community Energy Warwickshire will be meeting senior officials from South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and local MP Chris White on Saturday 24 March to celebrate the completion of Community Energy Warwickshire’s solar powered hospitals scheme. Trust Chair Graham Murrell and Trust Chief Executive Glen Burley will be among those seeing the new installation [...]

More than two dozen members of Community Energy Warwickshire have joined senior staff from South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust to celebrate the arrival of solar power at Stratford Hospital. Members of the south Warwickshire based energy co-operative joined Trust Chief Executive Glen Burley and Energy Manager Siobhan Hill to see the 10 kilowatt array of [...]

Community Energy Warwickshire’s first project was successfully installed last week – solar PV panels on the hospital in Stratford upon Avon. The 10kW array was installed on 8 December, beating the 12 December deadline to ensure the scheme will qualify for the higher rate of feed-in tariff payments before the new lower rates are introduced. Shares [...]

Community Energy Warwickshire is more than half way to its target of raising £100,000 by 21 November in order to install a substantial array of solar panels at local hospitals ahead of the Government’s 12 December cut-off date. And with just a week to go, the south Warwickshire energy co-operative is hoping that further subscriptions for its shares [...]

Community Energy Warwickshire has announced that it is pressing ahead with its share offer to raise funds for its solar-powered hospitals scheme – despite the Government’s announcement on Monday of savage cuts to feed-in tariffs for solar power installations. The scheme – which would see the installation of solar panels on roofs at Stratford upon Avon and [...]

Please join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the launch of Community Energy Warwickshire’s share offer - launched to raise £180,000 to fund the installation of solar panels on roofs at Stratford and Warwick hospitals. The launch event will take place at 8.00 pm on Thursday 3 November in the Ballroom (above the Tourist Information [...]

Community Energy Warwickshire will be telling people about community-based renewable energy at the Powering the Future event in the Guildhall, Worcester on Saturday 17 September. The free event, which runs from 9.30 to 4.00, features a number of keynote speakers, as well as workshops exploring specific topics. Barbara Cooper from Community Energy Warwickshire will be [...]

Community Energy Warwickshire has announced that Eco2Solar has been awarded the contract for installation of solar PV panels on roofs at Stratford and Warwick hospitals. Community Energy Warwickshire started a competitive procurement process for the project in March, when invitations to express an interest in solar PV installations were sent to a range of local firms. Five firms were [...]

A proposal by Community Energy Warwickshire to develop a model approach to involving local communities in renewable energy projects and energy saving programmes has received support from the West Midlands Low Carbon Economy Porgramme. The proposal, which was submitted jointly with Rugby-based Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action, will see Community Energy Warwickshire working with a [...]

Members of South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust heard more about Community Energy Warwickshire’s plans to install solar panels on the roofs of local hospitals at the Trust’s Annual General Meeting on 19 July 2011 in Warwick. Trust Chief Executive Glen Burley highlighted the proposal during his presentation of the Trust’s Annual Report to the meeting, [...]