Community Energy Funds

Community Energy Co-operatives that reinvest profits from their wind and solar projects into other community energy initiatives. These can be explored as potential support for community energy projects:

 

• Egni Co-op | Wales Solar PV Co-op (opens in a new tab)
• Email contact: admin@awel.coop
• Egni co-op provide rooftop solar PVs, helping sites save costs and reduce carbon emissions. They are currently prioritising larger roofs and sites using more than 100,000 kWh/year. All profits Egni generates fund further projects and environmental educational programmes.

 

• Cwm Arian Renewable Energy (CARE) | Community Benefit Society (opens in a new tab) 
• Email contact: heather@cwmarian.org.uk
• CARE (sometimes shortened to ‘Cwm Arian’) focuses on land-based skills for landowners or workers, community strengthening initiatives, energy-saving, and education. Primarily funded through grant funding, CARE is working towards a financially sustainable social enterprise model.

 

• Community Energy in Pembrokeshire (CEP) | Community interest company (opens in a new tab)
• Contact form (opens in a new tab)
• Community Energy in Pembrokeshire (CEP) is a Community Interest Company which delivers renewable energy projects identified by a renewable energy opportunity study for South East Pembrokeshire. Surpluses are re-invested into initiatives and activities contributing to climate change mitigation or adaptation.

 

Other funds that support Community initiatives:

National Lottery (opens in a new tab) 

Community Facilities Programme CFP (opens in a new tab) 

People’s Postcode Lottery (opens in a new tab)

Moondance Foundation (opens in a new tab)   

Garfield Weston (opens in a new tab)   

Enhancing Pembrokeshire administered via PCC

PCNP SDF (opens in a new tab)   

Milford Haven Port Authority Community fund (opens in a new tab)  

National Grid (opens in a new tab)

Planed (opens in a new tab) in Narberth may have additional listings and be able to help.