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Low Carbon Hub Community Grants Fund 2024 - 2025
It takes commitment, creativity, and hard work to run a thriving community group, but it’s inspiring and rewarding to witness the breadth of exciting events and programmes created by our community groups to reduce the effects of climate change. Low Carbon Hub’s vibrant community groups are at the heart of our work, and we are […]
Sandford Hydro gets an upgrade
Upgrades to our pioneering Sandford Hydro installation have increased its generation by over 17% in 2024/25. To address reduced generation during periods of low river flow when the screws cannot operate, we have covered the whole south-facing part of the plant in solar PV panels. This ensures the site can generate clean energy even when […]
Why we are using LETI as the standard for low carbon housing
If we’re serious about cutting carbon emissions from our homes, we need a clear plan for building better. That means well-insulated houses that use clean energy – without being ridiculously expensive or difficult to build. There are different ways to set standards for this, but not all of them work well in the real world.
Community Energy – Challenges and Solutions Event
Community groups are taking the lead by putting people at the heart of their vision for a just energy transition, exploring options to develop community scale energy projects that benefit everyone in their area. This year community energy has been a particular focus for four of our community groups who have successfully applied for grant […]
Blenheim: A legacy of leadership
Our Make Botley West Solar Farm Fair campaign is urging Blenheim Estate, the principal land owner of the proposed Botley West Solar Farm, one of the UK’s largest planned solar developments, to use their influence to push for a fairer community benefit deal from the project developers. In a public document and open letter that […]
Why Botley West matters to the whole UK
Our Make Botley West Solar Farm Fair campaign is focused on ensuring that the UK’s largest proposed solar farm delivers real and lasting benefits to the local communities that will host it. But this isn’t just an Oxfordshire issue, it’s a national one. Across the UK, many more large-scale solar developments are in the pipeline. […]
We're hiring a Net Zero Programme Manager
This isn’t just another programme management role – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of sustainable energy in Oxfordshire and beyond.
We've launched our first campaign. Here's why it matters.
Low Carbon Hub isn’t a campaigning organisation. Except – we are, just this once. We’ve launched Make Botley West Solar Farm Fair, a petition calling for a much stronger community benefits package from the developers of the proposed Botley West Solar Farm in Oxfordshire. We’re not campaigning for or against the project itself. We know there are a […]
Clean Heat and Free Cake
Can homemade cake and a small grant from Low Carbon Hub play a part in developing a zero-carbon future energy system? The answer is yes! As demonstrated by Sustainable Wantage, who used a small grant from Low Carbon Hub to stage their ‘Clean Heat and Free Cake’ event on Saturday, 8 March at the Beacon […]
What is the Grid Edge?
The ‘grid edge’ is, simply, where we all live, work and play – where the physical infrastructure of our energy system reaches us in our day-to-day lives. We often talk about the grid edge at Low Carbon Hub, but why is it so important? And why is the grid edge changing? Life at the edge […]
Community Energy Fund: powering up local energy
100% of our project surplus supports further action on climate change through our ground-breaking projects.
Moving a new build off gas with the help of a government grant and Octopus Energy
When buying their home in the Hanborough Gate development, the owner was already thinking of its potential to add solar panels and a heat pump: what was the house and driveway’s orientation? How far away was it from the next property? Starting with an already well-insulated home Built only around five years ago, the house […]