We are Keynsham Community Energy

Our purpose is to provide affordable, clean energy to communities in Keynsham.

As a Community Benefit Society, we raise funds in the local community to install local, green energy projects and use our surplus profits to help reduce your energy bills.

Our energy projects offer community investment opportunities as well as reducing energy costs and carbon emissions.

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We are Keynsham Community Energy

Our purpose is to provide affordable, clean energy to communities in Keynsham.
As a Community Benefit Society, we raise funds in the local community to install local, green energy projects and use our surplus profits to help reduce your energy bills.
Our energy projects offer community investment opportunities as well as reducing energy costs and carbon emissions.

Want to build a sustainable energy future for Keynsham?

Sign up to our newsletter to keep track of our projects and investment opportunities.

The Riverside solar project

Keynsham Community Energy are pleased to be behind Keynsham's first community energy project with a 92KW solar array to be installed on the Riverside development.

The energy produced by the panels will be bought and used locally, rather than being sold back to the grid. This way, we keep the energy and the money generated by the project in our local community.

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Local energy

Keynsham Community Energy is run by local people for local people, and we're keen to grow our membership. We're looking for people who share our aims, values and principles, and want to help us shape Keynsham's energy future for the better.

As a community benefit Society, Keynsham Community Energy is run by members of the community for the benefit of the community as a whole.

Community ownership

Our mission is to help Keynsham develop a clean energy future, mitigate climate change by installing renewable energy generation, and to do this in a fair and democratic way by spreading the ownership and benefits across the community rather than concentrating them in the hands of the few. That's why, as a Community Benefit Society, we are offering shares to local people in our project.

Our share offer will be open very soon. If you want to support your local community, help mitigate climate change and help build a stronger and more resilient town, please fill out the form below to find out more.

How to get involved

  • You can invest in our regulated, energy generation programmes and receive good potential return on your investment (typically 3% - 7%)
  • You can join our steering group that meets three times a year
  • You can become a Director of Keynsham Community Energy
  • You can become a partner of Keynsham Community Energy. We are interested in working with local businesses with land or roof space to develop more community-owned renewable energy projects in return for a reduction in the cost of your energy.

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Free slow cookers for Keynsham families

January 27, 2023

Families in Keynsham will be able to get a free slow cooker and energy advice thanks to a new project that’s just been awarded funding from the Bath and West Community Energy Fund. Keynsham Community Energy is collaborating with Keynsham Children’s Centre, B&NES Cook It team of dietitians and the Centre for Sustainable Energy to…

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The cost of living crisis – our response

August 26, 2022

The hike in today’s energy price cap will see household gas and electricity bills top £3,500 a year. This will push millions of people in communities across the UK into fuel poverty, and many thousands of businesses will fold. Care homes and schools will be forced to choose between retaining and recruiting staff and heating…

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Help and advice leaflets

August 25, 2022

Winters are tough. Rising fuel prices are a real challenge for households in Keynsham, as they are all over the country. We’ve got some really useful leaflets from our friends at the Centre for Sustainable Energy in Bristol, to help you keep warm and reduce your bills this winter. Please download and share them with…

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Keynsham Community Energy helps make homes more energy efficient

April 5, 2022

Local organisation Keynsham Community Energy has been helping Keynsham’s residents keep their homes warm this winter. Thanks to a grant from the Bath and West Community Energy Fund, the group has helped over 150 people to make their houses more energy efficient, by providing free draught-proofing products and advice leaflets. Volunteers from the group hosted…

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KCE response to Local Plan update

February 18, 2021

Keynsham Community Energy has submitted a response to Bath and Northeast Somerset Council’s Local Plan Partial Update. The Update considers a wide range of planning issues, but KCE has responded to the three that are most relevant to our work: sustainable construction, renewable energy (including wind turbines) and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. You can read…

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About us

As a Community Benefit Society, our focus is on community investment in renewable energy – building solar arrays and other renewable energy technologies in Keynsham that are funded by members of our community.

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Share offer

Keynsham Community Energy’s Riverside share offer will soon be going live! To register your interest, please fill in the form above or sign up to our newsletter (also above).

Contact us

Keynsham Community Energy is run by local people for local people, and we're keen to grow our membership. We’re looking for people who share our aims, values and principles, and want to help us shape Keynsham's energy future for the better.

Read more