Posts by Ruby Berridge

This year saw NLCE’s neighbouring Community Energy Group, Grimsby Community Energy’s event; Inspiring Cooperative Growth’s coming back for its second year. It was another event was another great day of  sharing knowledge in and around community energy and how to increase positive impacts. Speakers included; Chris Hines MBE (founder of Surfers Against Sewage), Lee Douglas…

April the 1st saw Hull’s first ever Community Energy event!   NLCE were pleased to be included in the panel and stallholder’s exhibition. It was a really encouraging day showing how much impact community energy is having across the region and nationally.   Thanks to the other speakers, stallholders, organisers including; North East and Yorkshire Net…

NLCE are excited to be able to announce that our twenty third solar PV installation at St John’s Market is finished!   Thanks to North Lincolnshire Council, and Joju Solar for the team effort for ‘Community Energy’. Generation of ‘clean’ electricity has started and we hope it will make a difference renewable energy generation in…

As mentioned last year, NLCE have been actively recruiting to expanding our board as we develop our community energy group. We’re pleased to welcome Amie Watson, who has been co-opted by our current board members and joins us between our Annual General Meeting. We look forward to working with her, and our existing board members…

North Lincolnshire Community Energy recently published our November 2025 – January 2026 newsletter: you can read it online through the link below.   After a productive and busy year as detailed in our two previous newsletters, NLCE have continued our progress and ended 2025 with a series of workshops and events as part of our…

North Lincolnshire Community Energy are delighted to be one of five organisations, to have been shortlisted for the 2026 UK Ashden Award for Local Energy Innovation. Being shortlisted shows how much NLCE have achieved since forming 2022, with the support of all of our members, host sites, Energy4All and North Lincolnshire Council. Good luck to all…

New Year, new opportunities! NLCE are pleased to announce that we are now on the Community Energy Connect Platform (supported by Younity), with our volunteering opportunities. If you are in interested in volunteering with us to gain experience working within the Community Energy sector in North Lincolnshire see our current vacancies listed HERE: https://tinyurl.com/4m7wd8cv (opens an…

As we begin 2026 NLCE would like to take a moment to reflect on both our own journey so far, as well as the amazing passion shown by many other community energy and community ownership groups and their supporters in the UK! Here is a brief round-up of LAST years progress: ✅ Last year this…

On Saturday the 13th of December 2025, North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) joined other co-operatives of the county in Lincoln at the Central Library to celebrate the International Year of The Cooperatives #IYC2025. It was a great way to network and engage with both other co-operative groups and the general public; ending the year long celebration…

To finish our updates on the past years installations in North Lincolnshire: NLCE are pleased to announce that our Solar PV installation, in collaboration with North Lincolnshire Council and Joju Solar, on St John’s Market in Scunthorpe is well underway. It will hopefully start its generation of clean electricity by mid December 2025 making a…