Community Energy Birmingham has recently raised £35,000 from short-term loans to install 18kW of solar PV panels at the Moseley Exchange in the centre of Moseley Village.   We are currently finalising the lease that will allow us to rent the roof space at the Exchange from Moseley Community Development Trust.

A slight delay has been caused to the installation on the Exchange main roof because the roller shutter over the entrance to the rear yard has become jammed and needs either to be repaired or removed.   Once this has been sorted, New World Home Energy, the company we are working with,  can gain access to the yard for their crane, in order to begin installing the panels on the main roof. In the  meantime they will install 30 panels on the back extension roof which does not need a crane to get the panels onto the roof.  There will be 40 panels on the main roof  in due course, making 70 panels altogether, and together they will generate enough power to supply the Exchange building with plentiful cheap, clean, low-cost electricity for the next twenty years.