Big news from the community energy sector is coming your way... from insights and events to learning about what we are doing on the ground to grow community energy. Including:

• A big moment for community energy – We've been busy in the wake of exciting funding news for our sector 

• Share offer coming soon – Be the first to pledge to a new investment opportunity in Newham
• Good luck to our graduates – our Green Skills Youth Training Programme cohort is off to new challenges
• Westminster Repowered Community kicks off – planting seeds for a new green energy neighbourhood
• And more!

(Clockwise from upper left) The Repowering London team, Goverment ministers, and local co-operatives celebrate the announcement of Labour's Local Power Plan. Our CEO joins Community Energy England's call to #uptheenergy

It's been a month already, but we are still buzzing. In case you missed the headlines, here's the scoop: the community energy sector has been promised a funding boost of up to £1bn as part of the Government's Local Power Plan.

It’s a big moment for the sector, a welcome investment and recognition of what we have always known – that communities have the power to unlock the UK’s pathway to a clean energy future that puts money directly into people’s pockets. Our CEO and Co-founder Afsheen Kabir Rashid MBE lays it out in our recent blog. Read it now via the button below.

To mark the launch of the Local Power Plan, Chair of Great British Energy Juergen Maier and Climate Minister Katie White OBE MP  joined members of our team and Community Energy Barnet at Burnt Oak Leisure Centre. The key take-away from the day's discussion: "We need more Sarahs!"

That means we need more community champions. People who get involved in their local community, develop their skills and build local co-operatives from the ground up. Like Sarah Taggart, who helped to set up Community Energy Barnet and is now working in the solar development team at Repowering London. 

Next up on a packed calendar, Repowering London joined a coalition led by Community Energy England and signed an open letter calling on the Government to #UpTheEnergy on community power.

We are ready to play our part in the urban transition to clean, local and affordable energy — and this means driving forward delivery at scale. Our goal is for communities in every town and city in the UK to be empowered with clean energy and to live in warm, healthy and comfortable homes by 2030. 

Last but not least, on 18 March, our team was welcomed into the halls of Whitehall by the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero as part of Community Energy Day 2026. Leading a workshop with HEAL on how community-led retrofit can support the Government's Warm Homes Plan, our Senior Programme Manager for Retrofit, Gordon, explored the barriers to scaling up domestic retrofit, and how policy change can help. He emphasised the value that we have seen in rooting retrofit work firmly in the community, and reminded the audience that: "if you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together." 

Our team member Arifa Begum will be signing up new investors soon

Community Energy Newham (CEN) is opening its second Community Share Offer soon. Following on from its first successful offer last year, it will be raising £140,000 to bring solar panels installed on two Newham primary schools into public ownership. You can pledge today and be one of the first to invest. Just press the button below. 

Our Green Skills Youth Training Programme cohort graduates in Newham

Want to bring the Youth Training Programme to your area? Email ali.fleming@repowering.org.uk to find out how.

Solar panels like these will soon be coming to the London borough of Westminster as part of the newest Repowered Community initiative

Last week the local community, with the support of Repowering London, launched the Westminster Repowered Community.

Following on from the flagship programme, Repowered Community Newham, it will accelerate the delivery of a just, community-led energy transition in the City of Westminster. The programme supports Westminster’s Climate Action Plan and Fairer Westminster ambitions.

The next steps will involve building inclusive governance structures, bringing in community participation, the development of community-owned rooftop solar installations and support for community-led retrofit in blocks of flats.

This activity will all lay the foundations for delivering clean energy generation, reducing carbon emissions and tackling fuel poverty in the borough. Listen to our CEO Afsheen Kabir Rashid MBE talk about the project using the link below.

We are looking for London blocks of flats with which to partner on retrofit

When it comes to retrofit opportunities and improving home energy efficiency, blocks of flats are being left behind. With 54% of Londoners living in flats and 41% of London homes rated EPC band D or lower, we knew this was a problem we had to tackle.

Our subsidised retrofit feasibility service provides a great opportunity for London-based blocks of flats to explore what they can do to improve the energy efficiency, sustainability and comfort of their buildings, and gives the foundations and support to take the next steps.

And we are looking for blocks to partner with now. 

Whether you are a landlord, resident management company or board, managing agent, freeholder, leaseholder or resident – find out how Repowering London can help you.

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