Empower Community Management LLP
The purpose of Empower Community is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable society by providing access
to much-needed capital for community renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
We have built an existing portfolio of 40 MW of community-benefit solar PV, comprising
11,000 roof-top social housing installations and two 5 MW solar parks, in twelve UK-wide locations.
Empower Community Management’s ongoing role is the overall management of solar PV for social housing, as well as driving growth through the origination and due diligence of additional projects, primarily with partner organisations Universal Energy Developments and EarthHealth Partnership.
Empower Community is a social enterprise that balances the interests of all stakeholders by…
While grass-roots, action-oriented responses to climate change continue to grow exponentially, the current limited access to finance is hampering the wholesale development and implementation of distributed energy solutions at anything like the scale or speed required.
News
£104,000 boost for frontline community and voluntary groups in Sunderland during COVID-19 pandemic
Thirty voluntary and community sector organisations in Sunderland have benefitted from more than £104,000 during…
Empower Community winner at 2017 Solar Power Portal Awards
Empower Community was announced as the winner of the Residential Rooftop PV category at the…
A Double Win for Communities and Solar
Leapfrog Finance funds acquisition of two community solar projects by Empower Community Foundation from Pfalzsolar…
First Empower Community area-wide solar PV scheme set to kick off in Peterborough
Council set to spearhead solar scheme for residential homeowners A pioneering new scheme which will…
Empower Community issues a £10 million loan note to provide solar energy to social housing in Sunderland.
Empower Community announced this morning that a large UK institutional pension investor has loaned £10.1m…