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 and manage an existing portfolio of 35 MW of community-benefit solar PV, comprising 10,000 roof-top social housing installations and two 5 MW solar parks, in ten 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…
Providing a high quality investment opportunity with attractive returns
Reinvesting profits in further community projects
Facilitating a community share in revenues and ultimate community ownership of assets
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.
Twelve frontline charities and community groups have received vital funds to continue providing important services to residents on Wearside during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to…
Empower Community was announced as the winner of the Residential Rooftop PV category at the Solar Power Portal Awards ceremony in Birmingham on 4th October…
Leapfrog Finance funds acquisition of two community solar projects by Empower Community Foundation from Pfalzsolar Two community solar projects acquired of 5MW each Projects have…
Council set to spearhead solar scheme for residential homeowners A pioneering new scheme which will offer owners of residential homes in Peterborough the chance to…
Empower Community announced this morning that a large UK institutional pension investor has loaned £10.1m to a project providing free daytime solar energy to over…
