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  • The 29 schools have a total annual generation of 1,362,415 kWh. This is equivalent to 15 million kettles being boiled, 45.5 slices of toast being made, 12 million hours of TV being watched, or 7,500 fridges being powered for a year.

    Our 29 solar schools – an update

    Over the past eight years, the Low Carbon Hub has partnered with 29 schools to install 5,647 solar PV panels. Our Solar Schools service offers schools a comprehensive solar installation service to power your schools with community-owned, discounted green electricity. Schools signing up for a free solar rooftop survey can apply for a grant to…
    19 November 2019
  • Solar panels on the rooftop of CTG in Banbury, owned and managed by Low Carbon Hub

    CTG solar roof expansion

    In November 2019 we installed an extension to our existing solar project on the roof of UTC Aerospace Systems CTG in Banbury, Oxfordshire. The background This solar roof array was already our largest rooftop solar install, and thought to be the UK’s largest community-owned rooftop solar array. When first installed, there were 2590 solar pv…
    18 November 2019
  • Solar panels on the rooftop of Longfields School, owned and managed by Low Carbon Hub

    Welcome to our 28th solar school: Longfields Primary School

    We’re really pleased to welcome our 28th solar school to the Low Carbon Hub. Longfields Primary and Nursery School in Bicester now have a fully installed array of solar panels that will provide around a third of the school’s energy needs.  Longfields is the latest to join a growing number of schools across Oxfordshire to…
    13 November 2018
  • Solar panels on the rooftop of Middle Barton School, owned and managed by Low Carbon Hub

    Solar powered schools have a great summer in 2018

    As you’ve probably noticed, it has been fairly sunny in Oxfordshire recently!  This means that at the moment some of our solar schools who are getting most of their electricity from their solar panels. They are not only using renewable energy and cutting CO2 emissions, but they are also saving money!  Percentage of electricity currently coming from…
    13 June 2018
  • 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
  • Solar panels on the rooftop of CTG in Banbury, owned and managed by Low Carbon Hub

    Press release: UK’s biggest community-owned solar roof is up at UTC Aerospace Systems CTG

    First project for social developer Low Carbon Hub within new FiTs regime Oxford, 21 November 2016 ~ CTG, a Banbury-based site of UTC Aerospace Systems, is now host to the UK’s biggest community-owned rooftop solar array. At 712kW, the 2590 panel project will generate 593,304 kWh of clean electricity every year — enough to power 150…
    20 November 2016