Celebrating 10 years of Selce!
252
members
£500k
invested
4
share offers
11
solar arrays
2.3m
kwhs of clean electricity
7
community lighting upgrades
4K+
househouse holds supported
£1.4m
saved in energy bills
11K
metric tonnes of CO2e avoided
About Us
South East London Community Energy (Selce) was born in 2014, when a group of people living in Greenwich & Lewisham became so concerned about climate change that they decided to come up with a formula that would help to create a clean and just energy future.
We seek to create a clean and just transition to an energy system that is fit for the future through:
- Distributed and renewable energy
- Reductions in energy demand
- Leaving no one behind
Throughout our first ten-years, we have set up projects that address inequality and seek to reduce our collective carbon footprint at different points in the energy systems.
To date we have built 11 solar arrays on community buildings in SE London and five several buildings’ lighting systems to be more energy efficient. We currently have a share offer for five lighting system upgrades and will open another soon for four solar array on community buildings.
We’ve helped well over 4000 house holds struggling with their energy bills through our energy advice service. And we are pleased to now be able to help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient through the Love Lofts and Future Fit Homes pilot programmes.
The Early Days of Selce
Listen to co-founder, Camilla Berens, speaking on the Activist Awakening podcast.
Our Aims
- We believe that everyone should have access to affordable, clean energy.
- Selce collaborates with local residents, businesses and organisations to develop financially, socially and environmentally sustainable projects that increase their energy efficiency, produce locally-generated renewable energy and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon future.
- For this transition to be effective, we must focus on making it fair and just. Any surplus we generate from our community energy projects is ploughed back into initiatives that help people to reduce their household bills and make their homes fit for the future.
Our Values
- Increase the amount of renewable and affordable energy in South-East London in order to mitigate climate change and accelerate a fair transition to zero-carbon, decentralised electricity systems.
- Provide organisations that offer valued community services in South-East London with access to affordable, renewable energy and undertake the retrofitting of their building systems to reduce their energy consumption and the burden of escalating energy costs.
- Support home-owners and businesses with knowledge, networks and financing to improve the health and environmental quality of their properties.
- Provide tangible improvements to the health and financial situation of those living in fuel poverty in South-East London.
- Hone an economically sustainable business model that has a core focus on social responsibility and affordable energy provision.
