We are delighted to announce the winners of Chester Community Energy’s 2026 Community Benefit Fund grant winners ! This year, we have awarded a total of £5,000 to local community groups… Chester Sailing Club – awarded £1,500 Hoole Baptist Church – awarded £2,940 Hoole Community Development Trust – awarded £560 Photos of the awards will … Read More

Chester Community Energy is delighted to announce that they have been awarded a Great British Energy Community Fund grant of over £28,000 to help with the set-up costs of a new solar panel installation on Hebden Green Community School in Winsford. The project will result in the installation of a  >80kWp array that will supply … Read More

Last year we had a Year 10 student from a local secondary school carry out a project for Chester Community Energy as part of the volunteering section of her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. The project used generation data from our 3 PV sites; she looked for patterns in our data and compared our generated … Read More

Chester Community Energy (CCE) is a Community Benefit Company that seeks to aid society’s transition to net zero. CCE has funded, via its members, solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays on a number of public buildings in and around Chester. By selling the electricity back to the tenants of those buildings at a lower price than typical … Read More

Each year Chester Community Energy has the pleasure of awarding grants to local community groups – this is funded by the monies generated by the 3 solar arrays owned by the members of Chester Community Energy.   Within the next month, the Community Benefit Award panel will be meeting to start the process of inviting … Read More