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Tag Archives: Brighton Energy Coop

Brighton Energy Coop: An Innovation History

September 17, 2012by Adrian Smith

September 2012, Sabine Hielscher. The Brighton Energy Co-op is a community renewable energy project based in Brighton & Hove. The Co-op currently consists of a chairman, Will Cottrell, two directors, […]

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CISE work with the Brighton Energy Coop: Persistence, determination and adaptability

May 30, 2012by Adrian Smith

BEC launches their community energy share issue Sabine Hielscher writes: On Wednesday the 16th of May 2012, the Brighton Energy Coop launched their share invitation to the public at the […]

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CISE work with the Brighton Energy Coop: The labyrinth of legal entities and organisational structures

May 12, 2011by Adrian Smith

Sabine Hielscher writes: The move of becoming a legally recognised entity (creating a formal structure recognised in law) is a critical step for numerous community renewable energy initiatives when trying […]

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CISE work with the Brighton Energy Co-op: When ‘things became more difficult’

April 7, 2011by Adrian Smith 1 Comment

Sabine Hielscher writes: The last blog entry about BEC discussed their start up phase. It was relatively easy to represent this phase in a linear timeline, as one event was […]

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Timeline – Brighton Energy Co-op

April 7, 2011by Adrian Smith
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Starting up BEC: “It struck me… if we want to get this done – we have got to do it”

March 23, 2011by Adrian Smith

Sabine Hielscher writes: Over the next few months the CISE team will join BEC’s team meetings and talk with them about their journey to learn more about the cooperative. We […]

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Brighton Energy Co-op: “Community, Green and Power”

March 23, 2011by Adrian Smith

The CISE team is working with the Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC). Over the next few months we will join their team meetings and talk with them about their journey to […]

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Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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