Community Energy in North Somerset

Our purpose is to help local communities to reduce energy costs and become more sustainable by reducing their carbon footprint. More specifically we aim to raise funds from the community to enable us to install locally-owned renewable energy systems and use the surplus income from these systems to fund work that reduces people’s energy consumption – for example, by improving home energy efficiency.

Find out more about what we do by browsing the ‘About Us’ section of this website.

Newsletter

You can find out more about our activities by subscribing to our newsletter, which is issued every 2-3 months. Sign up here.

Invest with us

You can help increase the amount of local renewable energy generated by investing with us. Find out more here.

Covid-19

During the Covid-19 situation, Low Carbon Gordano Ltd continued to operate  as normal, providing solar-generated electricity into the grid and for our partners. All of our schemes are outperforming forecasts and we are confident that our long-term financial returns remain secure as they are backed by Government-guaranteed electricity supply contracts.

Although the pandemic slowed some things down, we have continued to work on possible new developments whilst ensuring that our existing schemes are properly maintained.

AGM

2024

The 2024 Low Carbon Gordano Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Friday 27th September, online, at 7pm. More information and papers can be seen here.

2023

The 2023 Low Carbon Gordano AGM was held on Friday 29th September, online. More information can be seen here, and the recording of the AGM can be seen here.  Our Speaker was Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE who spoke about how the public engage with climate change, energy and transport. You can watch her presentation here .

2022

Our 2022 AGM was held on Friday 30 September, with the guest speaker Sarah Merrick, Business Green’s 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year, and CEO of the multiple award winning Ripple Energy.

2021

The 2021 AGM was held via Zoom on Friday 25th September.  Our guest speaker for the evening was Jonathon Porritt who provided his insightful and informative commentary on the national and global realities of the fight against climate change, along with some of his predictions for COP26.  You can find a link to a recording of the 2021 AGM here.

Our Communities

When Low Carbon Gordano was established in 2011 we defined our community as consisting of the towns of Portishead and Pill and the adjoining villages. After 3 years experience in developing projects we realised that this area was too small to sustain a long term sustainable energy project. As well as size there are significant constraints which were not foreseen at the outset; these include the Green Belt designation which covers all of the original area and the presence of Bristol airport which has so… Read more