Energy4All

Energy4All was established by Baywind Co-op, the find co-operatively owned wind project in the UK, on a not-for-profit basis in 2002 for the sole purpose of facilitating the ownership and operation of renewable energy projects by local or community-based co-operatives. Energy4All provide day to day administration and management services to Spirit of Lanarkshire under a contract with the site developers Nadara. Activities include bookkeeping, organising the AGM and maintaining the membership register.

Energy4All has dedicated development staff working throughout the UK, utilising key partnerships to promote community renewables. Energy4All is owned by the co-ops that make up it's membership - now more than 30 across the UK, covering wind power, rooftop and ground mount solar PV, hydropower and district heating.

You can register your interest to hear about new opportunities to join community energy societies across the UK.

For full details of other members of the Energy4All family of co-operatives please visit the explore page on the Energy4All Website.

Energy4All won a prestigious 2012 Ashden Award for its outstanding work in enabling community ownership of renewable energy through the establishment of co-operatives. Please click on the Ashden Award winner 2012 logo for further information.

Energy4All’s Response to the Local Power Plan
Energy4All is impressed by the ambition, scale and intent behind the government’s Local Power Plan, which commits up to £1 billion in funding to the community and local energy sector. Our Chair Mike Smyth and Solar Operations/Project Manager Sam Stevens both attended the launch event for the Plan in London last night and came away… […]
10 year anniversaries for 6 renewable energy societies!
Much of the conversation around community energy in the UK is focused on what comes next – scaling up, unlocking grid access, and reaching the ambition of 8 GW of community and locally owned power by 2030. As we reach the end of 2025, we want to pause and look back. This year, six renewable… […]
Explore all the co-ops in the Energy4All family
Energy4All have, for the first time, consolidated all our member co-operatives and their individual renewable energy sites into one community energy map: click here to go to the map. Our old map showed the centre for each of our 35 member co-ops, but this doesn't capture the full story - for example The Schools' Energy… […]
NLCE is nominated for a Community Energy England award!
North Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE), part of the Energy4All family of co-ops, has been nominated for this year's Community Energy England awards in the Community Energy Excellence (Large Organisation) category. This is fantastic recognition for a co-op that has grown at pace over the last two years, now with 34 solar installations in North Lincolnshire… […]
Connecting with European energy communities
Last week Energy4All were in Brussels for the final ‘ACCE’ conference: ACCE is a European Union LIFE Programme funded project, creating simple and effective financial tools for energy communities. The ACCE project focused on creating and developing Community Energy Financing Schemes, or ‘CEFS’, in different countries with varying levels of existing support. In the Netherlands… […]