Repowering London specialise in empowering urban communities with pioneering projects like the Urban Energy Club. The Urban Energy Club was the final stage in a project which allowed residents of Elmore House in Brixton to receive tangible benefits from the 36kWp solar array on the roof of the building. 

The solar array’s installation, the UK’s first urban community energy project, allowed power to be supplied to the building’s communal areas. The second stage of the project took this a step further by introducing a peer-to-peer trading platform developed by EDF Energy R&D, allowing participants to share or sell their energy allocation to other residents.

Throughout the project we worked closely with Repowering London and EDF’s UK R&D team to ensure the project was a success and the battery systems delivered the benefits the community expected. Remote monitoring and control of the system since the EDF trial finished has allowed new control strategies to be implemented by Repowering London including charging the batteries using excess solar generation to offset peak energy costs, this has further reduced residents’ energy bills.