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

We are delighted to announce the winners of Chester Community Energy’s 2025 Community Benefit Fund grant winners ! This year, we have awarded a total of £6,000 to local community groups… CHAWREC – awarded £2,239 Hoole Community Trust – awarded £800 Neuromuscular Centre – £1,969 Wesley Methodist Church – awarded £992 Photos of the awards … Read More

We wish everyone the very best for the Festive Season. Here’s the latest Christmas bauble summary for this year – a great achievement regarding carbon reduction (the equivalent of nearly 10,000 trees planted)!

Applications need to be in by 4.00 pm, 20th December 2024. This year we will award up to £6,000 (£3,000 max. per application). Applications are encouraged from local Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector (VCFS) organisations within the Chester area if they comply with the qualifying criteria: Provide a service to their community Have a bank … Read More

If you would like to get involved in running Chester Community Energy as Society Secretary, then please do apply on the Reach Volunteeing web site: Society Secretary Role We’d love to have you on board!

Our AGM this year will be held on Tuesday 1st October (7.30pm) at  St Mary’s Handbridge Centre, Overleigh Road, Chester CH4 7HL (free parking available at the venue) Members will also be able to join remotely on Zoom. Our accountants Sharenergy will be assisting with the arrangements and will be contacting Members with the formal … Read More