• Solar panels on the rooftop of Watchfield Village Hal

    Our Community Grants in Action: Watchfield Village Hall solar

    As well as providing help and advice, Low Carbon Hub also offers financial support to  our community shareholder groups wanting to carry out carbon-cutting activity in their community. Here is a case study of what one group did with a small grant we awarded them. Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust (WeSET) was one of the last community groups to successfully…
    24 February 2017
  • Solar panels on the rooftop of CTG in Banbury, owned and managed by Low Carbon Hub

    A birds eye view of CTG’s solar panels

    This video, courtesy of Stone’s Throw Media, shows an unused roof at UTC Aerospace Systems CTG in Banbury being transformed into a people’s power station. Work with us We want to work with more local businesses to develop ‘people’s power stations’ for community benefit. 
    21 November 2016
  • Teal blue colour block - the colour of our Sandford Hydro screws

    Poll results: colour for Sandford Hydro screws

    We asked and you chose a colour for the Archimedes screws at Sandford! Last week we did a poll to ask what colour we should specify for the three Archimedes screws at Sandford Hydro. With 36% of the vote the winner was Water Blue RAL 5021! If you’d like to receive occasional updates just about progress…
    20 November 2016
  • Lines of light on a dark St Aldates

    Low Carbon Hub wins UK Ashden Award

    We’ve won the world’s leading green energy award! Low Carbon Hub has won the UK Ashden Award for Sustainable Communities. Our clean energy social enterprise is a joint winner with Repowering London. The award ceremony this evening (9th June) will include winners from the UK, Africa, Indonesia, Mauritania, Asia and Central America — a truly global…
    2 June 2016