Bath & West Community Energy

bwce is a not for profit community benefit society, owned and run by our members for the benefit of the community. our vision is for a local area able to supply decreasing local energy demand with increasing generation from renewable energy, driven by collective action and community ownership. our area of benefit covers bath & north east somerset and parts of wiltshire and south gloucestershire that border b&nes. we aim to reduce local carbon emissions through: - increasing the amount of local renewable energy generation - delivering projects to reduce the energy demand of local households, businesses and organisations. since being established in 2010 we have: - installed renewable energy equivalent to the demand of 4,000 homes (including ground mounted solar arrays and solar pv on schools and community buildings) - donated over £155,000 to local projects through our community fund. - raised over £9 million through community shares and bonds.