Accelerating the transition to sustainable low carbon local economies
The purpose of Empower Community is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy by providing access to much-needed capital for community renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
It is designed to create a virtuous cycle of resource allocation for social and environmental benefit that encourages large-scale community participation, ownership and responsibility.
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.
The Management Team
From left to right, standing: Leapfrog Finance (Richard O’Rourke, Matthew Andrews), Empower Community (Bob Knowles, Paul Yiannouzis). Seated: Alex Grayson, Empower Community
The purpose of Empower Community is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy by providing access to much-needed capital for community renewable energy…
Key Principles We need to greatly accelerate the deployment of renewable energy at scale in order to address the combined factors of climate change, energy…
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,…
Email: info@empowercommunity.co.uk By phone: Call us on 0203 005 2491 By post: Write to us at: Empower CommunityHudson House8 Tavistock StreetLondonWC2E 7PP
Alex Grayson – Managing Partner As a co-founding partner, Alex looks after the general management, project development, marketing, company secretarial and day-to-day operations of ECM.…
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Brief Overview The purpose of the Empower Community Foundation is to help provide a governance framework for the Empower Community funding mechanism and also 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…
