Update

Rosendale Energy met with a year 5 pupil at Rosendale School this week for an interview about Rosendale Energy - what the project is and how pupils, parents, teachers, governors, local residents can get involved, please look out for the article in the December edition of The Rosendale Voice. A competition will also be launched with the piece to encourage creative ideas.

Rosendale Energy are also meeting with the School Council this Friday to make a presentation about the project and engage pupils in the process and hear about their ideas and input.

Please come along this Friday if you're free to a Rosendale Energy meeting 7-8pm at Rosendale School, children are always welcome, we look forward to sharing details of next steps… hope to see you there!

Brixton Energy on BBC London News

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TTB, Brixton Energy, TTB Community Draught Busters and the Institute of Insulators (working title) are holding an event ALL ABOUT ENERGY, saving it, making it, owning. Locally! This will be at TTB's regular Shared Space Open Evening on Monday 11 November at the Loughborough Community Centre. See the attached flier which we will be distributing from this weekend. Please diary it now and let us know you can come! 

The aim is to network projects/businesses/local authority/communities, inspire, inform, think forward and take the first steps towards a Lambeth Energy Partnership. We will also report back on the REconomy Project Energy Report on localising the Energy Sector in Lambeth - and its action plan. see report here and scroll down.

Programme so far:

6-7 set up, demos, site visit to solar arrays on Loughborough Estate, networking, eating,

7-8 inspiring local energy project updates and future plans.

8-9 planning Lambeth Energy Partnership, moving Local Energy forward, discussions, networking.

There is a planning document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTjeN5ewC4KGoAM3b6sCIiTqBpkU6gkmFdeQPVpGOe4/edit?usp=sharing . Please visit contribute, be in touch with ideas, offers,  etc on 07958 635181.

Please tell your members, associates, colleague, partners, people you want to convince this is the way forward, to be there. And us that you are coming and how you want to participate. We want short 4 min max (except for lead partners who get a couple of minutes more) contributions on what your project has done, is doing and wants to do. Tell us of people/projects who should be there.

Let's make saving and generating energy locally mainstream!

Please come to the meeting this Thursday 24th October 5-6pm Rosendale Children's centre with Agamemnon director of Repowering Brixton

4ALL Community Fair

We had a great day talking to local residents and young people about Rosendale Energy, solar panels and sustainability, people were really excited about the idea of a community pot, and how they could make their area more green. If you want to meet us, we will be at  Rosendale School, Halloween Fair on Friday 25th October 3.30 - 6.30pm

Who are we?

We are people who live in the Rosendale area who have been inspired to try and develop a scheme to create sustainable energy. This is the chance to pioneer a cooperative renewable solar energy project involving Rosendale School, All Saints Church, Lairdale and Whytefield Estate on Rosendale Road. A project on this scale hasn't been done before - this is pioneering stuff and has great educational benefits for children, parents, teachers, local residents to learn how we use energy, make it and pay for it. 

Repowering Brixton, a not-for-profit, have already made this happen at two estates in Brixton and have been heralded by the governments as pioneers in the field of community owned renewable solar energy. Agamemnon Otero, director of Repowering Brixton has been to the school and spoken to Kate Atkins, Meshandia Dampier - school council leader, school governor Toby Litt, the school architects from Cullinan studio and various parents and representatives from the two estates - who are all open to and supportive of  the project. Repowering Brixton can offer professional advice and handle the technical aspects of the scheme.

The rest of it works by the local community getting  inspired, involved, taking interest and investing in the project. There are many benefits to buying shares in the scheme including tax relief, work experience and jobs for local people plus a chance for the school, nursery and childrens centre and local community to earn back funds from excess energy sold back to the national grid.