Energy Efficiency
Lighting
Lighting accounts for 15% of the average electricty bill. It is also one of the easiest things to replace in your home, and presents a significant opportunity to achieve a noticable reduction in annual energy bills.
Activities
Warmth For Wellbeing – Keeping Brightonians Happy & Healthy
Warmth For Wellbeing Last winter, BHESCo’s Energy Saving Service managed to support 75 fuel poor households in Brighton and Hove through the Warmth For Wellbeing programme. Now in its second year, the scheme helps residents save money on their energy bills, by giving energy efficiency advice, assisting with energy company Read more…
Activities
A Bright Future For Hollingdean Community Centre
What Is The Hollingdean Community Centre? The Hollingdean Community Centre is located in one of the Brighton’s most diverse and vibrant wards but also one of its poorest. It is managed by the Hollingdean Development Trust – a charity dedicated to addressing issues of poverty, deprivation and education within the Read more…
Economics
Why we need a community energy revolution – theecologist.org
Communities should take power into their own hands to build an abundant local clean energy supply to secure our future energy on a national scale, claims Kayla Ente, founder of community energy service co-operative BHESCo…… Consumers have not benefitted from liberalisation of the energy markets. Instead liberalisation has created Read more…
Energy
Hove Station Neighborhood Forum project
BHESCo is working with the Hove Station Neighborhood Station Sustainability group to develop an energy plan for the neighbourhoods within the designated area. Ollie Pendered, our Communications and Communities Director, is leading the project applying his experience from designing energy plans in the past in Barcombe, East Sussex. The first Read more…