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NLCE have published our annual report which is available for members and non-members to read. It covers the financial year ending March 2025. Read the annual report here.  This is released ahead of our Annual General Meeting (AGM) which is being held on Tuesday September 16th. It’s a chance for members to have a say…

This year we will be holding our AGM (Annual General Meeting) on Tuesday September 16th at Heslam Park Club in Scunthorpe: join us for an evening filled with speakers, updates, discussions, and some community energy games. Book on Eventbrite This event is a great chance to connect with fellow members, share ideas, and contribute to…

As part of our ambitions to expand North Lincolnshire Community Energy, we have been seeking additional non-executive directors to join our board. We’re pleased to be able to share that we have a new director joining us at NLCE, Stewart Smith. Stewart took the opportunity of becoming a member in our last Share Offer, then…

In July NLCE started off well with plenty of ‘Community Energy Fortnight’ (#CEF2025) engagements in Scunthorpe; taking in part in the biggest celebration of community energy in the UK. NLCE screened the film WE THE POWER at Oasis Community Space, which is about the journey of Community Energy in Europe and how it can benefit…

As mentioned in our newsletter (Jan-May), NLCE are excited to announce we have been successful in securing two sets of funding recently to continue the work we have been doing locally within North Lincolnshire in our role promoting community energy. Firstly, NLCE secured Energy Redress Just Transition funding, which is allowing us to continue the…

Energy4All Chair Mike Smyth and Non-Executive Director Mark Luntley have been sharing their expertise in how community energy projects in the UK overcome barriers to successfully generate clean energy for ordinary people. They took part in a community energy financing podcast series by ACCE – a European collaborative project focusing on creating simple and effective…

North Lincolnshire Community Energy recently distributed our Jan-May 2025 newsletter: you can read it online through the link below. We talk about what NLCE has been doing so far this year, our most recent solar installations, how the co-op is being used as a shining example in wider government debate, our most recent stats and…

NLCE have ended May with Scunthorpe’s first facilitated Climate Conversations Cafe, in collaboration with EarthLincs, and Cafe Indie. By using the Younity funding NLCE secured, we have been able to provided a safe space to discuss how climate change impacts on mental health. More dates for the Cafe to be announced soon.

This month NLCE are excited to announced that we have been awarded the Younity Powering Communities Grant, to deliver local sustainable workshops and engagements to the general public – this is really fundamental to covering the cost of our in-person and online engagements about community energy. Follow our social media accounts for upcoming events, which…

Sunny March rounds off a rewarding year for NLCE 14th April 2025 It wasn’t just the residents of Scunthorpe enjoying the sunny weather in March: our community-owned solar panels on schools and community buildings generated a whopping 114,855 kWh of clean energy, rounding off our financial year with 1,160,761 kWh produced.  For context, that’s enough…