News Archives - North Lincolnshire Community Energy

A bright start to 2025: building commences on two sites in Scunthorpe

£271,492 North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) have hit the ground running in 2025. We are a third of the way to our share offer total of £700,000: money raised will fund new solar arrays on sites across Scunthorpe and the surrounding area. Already, we have generated more than 1,500 MWh of electricity (end of December…

A greener future for North Lincs: local cooperative who cuts schools’ energy bills now seeking new members

(PRESS RELEASE) 6th December 2024 After a successful first two years, North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) have launched a new Share Offer to install solar panels on school, community and public buildings in Scunthorpe and the surrounding area. Members of the community can invest from as little as £50 to have a stake in the…

New Share Offer coming soon – NLCE intends to pay annual interest rate of 5% on Shares

North Lincolnshire Community Energy are in the final stages of preparing a new Share Offer for members of the community to invest in the organisation. We are expecting to produce returns that allow us to pay an interest rate of 5% to members as well as create a surplus to do more, initially by supporting…

NLCE wins the Alan Clark Award for Local/Community Energy

We are delighted that North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) has been awarded the Alan Clark Award for Local/Community Energy at the Solar & Storage Live Awards, along with collaborators Joju Solar and North Lincolnshire Council. The award recognises solar energy projects that go beyond generation to engage the local communities that they impact. NLCE…

North Lincolnshire Community Energy awarded grant towards next share offer

The Chair of North Lincolnshire Community Energy, Mike Smyth MBE, says he is delighted that Northern Powergrid has decided to give NLCE a grant of £10,000. This will be put towards the costs of the forthcoming share offer. “It’s great to have this support and we are very grateful to Northern Powergrid”.

Annual Report 2024 Published

The NLCE Annual Report has been published. This report covers our financial year which ended on 31st March 2024, and developments since then. Members were invited to join an Annual General Meeting via Zoom on 24th September 2024. Click below to download and read the report: Copy of North Lincolnshire Community Energy Annual Report 2024

Members hear of recent successes at Co-op AGM

Members of North Lincolnshire Community Energy were told at the September AGM that the previous 12 months had been very successful and the society now had over 200 members. Highlights included £600,000 raised in its first share offer. There were already 12 solar arrays installed on local schools in the area with 5 more sites…

Annie Fanny lights up The Bath Halls

None other than Scunthorpe’s favourite panto dame, Annie Fanny, has switched on the new solar panels recently installed at The Bath Halls. The 158kW system includes 360 solar panels. It is hoped that it will save approximately 24 tonnes of CO2 a year and around £15,000 on electricity bills which is approximately 30% of the…

March 2024 Newsletter

Below is a copy of the March 2024 members newsletter: Dear Member, Welcome to North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) members! As someone invested in zero carbon energy and supporting the community of North Lincolnshire, we thought you would be interested to see how far we’ve come since our previous communications.

NLCE members accepting the CEE Awards 2023

NLCE & North Lincs Council partnership wins award

North Lincolnshire Council, for supporting North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) from the outset, won the Supportive Local Authority Award at the prestigious Community Energy Awards last night in Manchester. North Lincolnshire Council utilised a £1.4 million Towns Fund grant to get the NLCE cooperative off the ground, and the council also helped find suitable host…