• What we do at Low Carbon Gordano

As a community owned enterprise, Low Carbon Gordano represents a new vision for ownership of our energy supplies. A vision that allows local people to own and profit from the development of renewable energy resources in their community.

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.

We also make an annual donation to our Community Benefit Fund. 10% of this is granted directly by the LCG Board to a charity supporting carbon reduction schemes in communities in the developing world.  The other 90% is contributed to the Bristol Megawatt Fund, along with a similar contribution from the Bristol Energy Co-operative, and managed by the Quartet Foundation.

LCG’s Vision

A low carbon future for the Gordano Community and the wider world using a co-operative model to ensure community participation and ownership.

LCG’s Mission

To help create a low carbon future through renewable energy generation, energy storage, renewable energy supply and other carbon reduction measures.

LCG’s Objectives

  1. Achieving carbon reduction through developing renewable energy generation and storage schemes, renewable energy supply and supporting energy reduction programmes
  2. Exploring innovative local energy models to help communities contribute effectively to the achievement of net zero carbon
  3. Generating a financial surplus for reinvestment in carbon reduction projects in our community
  4. Maximising regional business and employment opportunities in order to develop a sustainable local economy
  5. Engaging with our local community to support new projects and adopt a lower carbon lifestyle
  6. Collaborating with energy deprived communities in other parts of the world to achieve fairer, sustainable, low carbon lifestyles
  7. Developing partnerships with other organisations with compatible aims

Organisation

Low Carbon Gordano is a Community Benefit Society founded on co-operative principles and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Low Carbon Gordano Ltd was registered in England and Wales on 28th April 2011.

Registration number: 31251 R

Registered Office: The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, Bristol, BS2 8QN

VAT registration no: 204 9802 18

Achievements

In 2014 we undertook a successful community share offer and raised £2.2 million pounds to build the 1.8MW Moorhouse Farm Solar Array. In 2015 we raised a further £970,000 to build the 970kW array at Ham Lane, Kingston Seymour, in North Somerset.  With the surplus from these two schemes we installed three community roof solar schemes at the end of 2015. In 2018 we added an array at Churchill Academy in Churchill Green, North Somerset. In 2019 we purchased two small existing arrays totalling 99kWp on the Solarsense site in Brockley.

New opportunities to invest in community owned renewable energy schemes will be posted on this website or you can send an email to contact@lowcarbongordano.co.uk registering your interest and we will keep you posted.