You don’t have to join an existing community energy group or spend time creating one – you can just join the Big Solar Co-op and start looking for suitable solar sites. Many of our Volunteer Members work outside of any local group. Others prefer to work with us from within their community group, benefitting from each other’s local knowledge, connections and working together in person.

To make this decentralised approach possible, we use a custom built database of sites and an online messaging platform that can be accessed 24/7. We get together in person for an annual interactive conference – the Big Solar Gathering and run regular free training and collaborative discussion events over Zoom through the year. All our learning so far is available in a dedicated Volunteer Member area along with past recordings of our webinars, talks and training videos.

Let us know what would you like to bring to and get out of the Big Solar Co-op project by joining one of our quarterly intro calls where we discuss the project in general, answer questions about the model and explain how people and groups can get involved. To be invited to this public call, please click the button to be taken to a short registration form: