BHESCo is a consumer co-operative made up of members who all have an equal say in our governance.

The majority of our members are people who have made an investment in our co-operative, putting their money to good use reducing carbon emissions and tackling climate change.

Our other members include current and previous community energy project customers, who are invited to join the co-op as part of our business relationship with them. In this way, BHESCo remains accountable to our customers long after the project installation, because all of our customers become members of our co-op and have a say in how we are run.

As a co-operative, each of our members is entitled to one vote regardless of how many shares they hold.

For a minimum investment of £500 you can become a member of BHESCo today, entitled to on your investment plus the right to vote on the future of the business at our Annual General Meetings.

Being a not-for-profit means that we can keep our project costs affordable for our customers because we are not aiming to generate big dividends for our shareholders.

Everything that we do at BHESCo is driven by a desire to reduce energy costs for the local community and to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels in our energy supply. We want to help you make your home, your business, and your community more sustainable, and for this reason we keep our costs as low as possible.

Our Project Team consists of highly technically proficient professionals with decades of experience in energy project delivery. 

As a small team we remain agile and flexible to your energy project requirements. With project oversight for all work coming from the CEO decisions can be made quickly in response to evolving project requirements or policy landscape changes. 

We believe that the ‘for-profit’ energy industry is not working in the interests of people or the planet.

Energy bills are at record highs while oil and gas majors are enjoying record profits, continuing to invest in new fossil fuel projects while communities around the world suffer the effects of climate change.

Our goal is to demonstrate that energy can be done differently, where assets are collectively owned by the communities they serve, operating at the lowest possible cost to keep bills down while producing zero carbon emissions in the process.

BHESCo has delivered sixty low-carbon energy projects since our first successful share offer of 2015. 

In that time our Project Team have deployed a great variety of low-carbon technologies including solar PV, battery storage, air source and ground source heat pump, insulation, biomass heating, and LED lighting. 

In addition to our project management and installation work BHESCo have completed a number of decarbonisation studies for a variety of local authorities including  the Firle Estate, Shoreham Parish Council in Kent, and Crowhurst Parish Council in East Sussex.

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The majority of BHESCo’s community energy projects are financed through a community share offer paying investors a 5% return.

The upfront cost is repaid by the project customer over a number of years using a portion of the savings achieved from their monthly energy bill.

By meeting project costs in this way we are able to remove any financial obstacles that can prevent property owners from improving the energy performance of their buildings.

Here’s how it works:

1. Research and Design: We survey your property and recommend energy improvements,

2. Fundraising: Upfront project costs are met by investors who buy shares in BHESCo.

3. Project Delivery: Investments are used to develop clean energy projects.

4. Finance Period: Customer repays project costs (plus interest) using savings from energy bills

5. Interest Payments: Interest is passed on to investors

6. Transfer of Ownership: Customer becomes the owner of the energy saving system