Energise Buckinghamshire Launch - Amersham

Who is the event for?

Come and find out about Energise Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Community Energy's new community-funded solar panel and battery storage service for homeowners, and the Community Share Offer for investors.

Homeowners: If you're missing out on free solar power, see if Energise Buckinghamshire would be suitable for you and your home. With no upfront costs, you'll save money on bills from day one.

Investors: Find out more about this exciting new community energy project, and join the co-operative and collaborative movement to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions while earning interest on your investment.

What is Energise Buckinghamshire?

To make solar power more accessible and to reduce energy bills for homeowners, we’ve launched Energise Buckinghamshire, a community-owned, innovative project that provides a free solar and home battery storage system, for a monthly service fee.

The first phase of 100 homes is open to homeowners in Amersham, Chesham, Weston Turville, Haddenham and Princes Risborough, before rolling out to further villages and towns in the second phase from 2027. This will give us a forecast 4.2MW of solar generation and battery storage combined by the end of 2028.

You can invest from £100 to £100,000 to help us reach our target of £2.3m so we can install 200 Energise Buckinghamshire systems over the next two years. Investors will be a mix of local Buckinghamshire residents and organisations and nationally-based social impact investors.

This is a community investment vehicle for community benefit and an ethical, sustainable, climate and people-friendly commercial model which will interest anyone with with some savings they can spare to make a positive impact. This share offer is targeting an annual 5% return to investors.

The project will also provide community and climate benefits by helping the Grid decarbonise, one roof at a time!

For more information on the project, go to: Energise Buckinghamshire – Buckinghamshire Community Energy

More information on the Investor proposition is here: https://buckscommunityenergy.org/community-share-offer/

What will I learn?

Buckinghamshire Community Energy's Chair, Kirsty Shanahan, will take you through the project and explain how it will operate to save our host homeowners money while earning interest for our community investors who fund the installations.

By the end, you will understand the operational model, the value drivers which yield surplus for investors and community benefit, and how investment in this project will benefit the energy system and local people by bringing energy generation and use down to community level.

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on ways to raise awareness about the project in Amersham.

About us

Buckinghamshire Community Energy (BCE) is a local community energy group which brings together community investment to fund projects that help people and organisations save money on energy, as well as contributing towards carbon emissions reduction.

What if I can't attend the Amersham launch?

Find out more and make an Initial Application / Expression of Interest via BCE's website: Energise Buckinghamshire – Buckinghamshire Community Energy

We're holding further events in August and September and the next launch event will be in Chesham on Thursday 20th August, click here to book. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/energise-buckinghamshire-launch-chesham-tickets-1993861109251

Event times

7pm - Doors open

• Refreshments available on arrival

7.30pm - Presentation begins

• Followed by Q&A (until approx 8.30pm)

9pm - Doors close