Welcome to MaidEnergy

MaidEnergy is a volunteer-led society offering local people the opportunity to invest in solar and ground source heat pump energy to make a greener, cleaner world a reality. We are a local renewable energy Society, created to tackle climate change and support the growth of renewable, locally generated energy in Maidenhead, Windsor, Egham, Staines and the surrounding area.

MaidEnergy works by:

• Finding community buildings that are interested in benefiting from savings in carbon and energy cost
• Providing the finance to fund the installation from our members
• Managing the installation and all ongoing maintenance 
• Working with sites to maximize financial, environmental, and community benefit

Do you want to be part of the revolution and help us to lower carbon emissions?  Sign-up today!

New solar roofs and new share offer on the way

We’re very pleased to have opportunities for three new large solar rooftop sites!

If all goes well we’ll be opening up a new offer this winter. We’re working out whether to make it a share offer like those we’ve done before, or a bond offer with a shorter term of 10 or 12 years. 

Please do press the button and tell us if you're interested - it doesn't commit you but it helps us plan.

One site is at Furze Platt Senior School, adding some new roofs to the one we’ve done already.  

One is at Braywick Leisure Centre, which is already our largest site, adding many more solar panels to their very large roof. We’re very pleased both these sites want to do more with us.  

The third is at Windsor Leisure Centre, which is a new site for us, but an old partnership with Leisure Focus, the charity who also run Braywick Leisure Centre.  

Each one is bigger than our biggest current site, at Braywick Leisure Centre, and that means we can save a lot of carbon, we can cut a lot off our partners’ bills, and the scale makes the finances stack up better.  

250 tons of CO2 saved

We've reached another milestone at the start of March 2022 - 250 tons of carbon saved from our 7 solar projects. 

The biggest is Braywick Leisure Centre, which is also the newest. It's now reached 100,000 kW hours of production. Many thanks to all our members who've made this possible!

 

Heat pump opening celebration Saturday 12 Feb

Our ground source heat pump project at Thames Valley Athletics Centre is finished!  

We had a wonderful opening celebration with Adam Afriyie MP on 12 February 2022. He said, "We need to cut emissions from heating to tackle climate change, and we need lower energy bills, so I was delighted to open the low carbon heating system at Thames Valley Athletics Centre. Congratulations to them and to MaidEnergy Ltd
for making it happen!"



Many thanks to everyone who came! Particular thanks to Adam Afriyie MP, and Cllr Andrew Johnson, Leader, Cllr Samantha Rayner, Deputy Leader and TVAC trustee, and Cllr Donna Stimson, Sustainability Lead, from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.



Many thanks to our excellent contractors ISO Energy and consultants Low Carbon Alliance for giving expert tours of the site and being a pleasure to work with. 

Many thanks to Alan Bostock for photography.

Many thanks to all our members who invested to make this possible, and to the team at TVAC who wanted to cut their carbon, worked with us to install solar panels two years ago, and now the heat pump.

This is our biggest project yet and our first one decarbonising heating. We're thrilled to have done this as heat is such a big part of getting the UK to zero emissions, and it's newer territory for community energy.

This project is possible because of the Renewable Heat Incentive, and we hope the government  replace it soon so we can do more low carbon heat projects like this one. We'd love to get digging again before long.


 

200 tons of CO2 saved

We're delighted to reach the landmark 200 tons this summer!  We've saved 230 tons of carbon from our solar panels by the end of August 2021. 



Our next project will add low carbon heat to the mix - and we plan to start digging the boreholes for a ground source heat pump at Thames Valley Athletics Centre in mid-October.

Latest Share Offer a Success

YOU DID IT!

Even in these challenging times, our community has come together to raise above the minimum investment target in our latest share offer.

So we now have £196k invested which will be used to deliver our brand new project at Thames Valley Athletics Centre for a ground source heat pump at the same time as supporting future projects.

Thank you to everyone who has invested with MaidEnergy and welcome to all our wonderful new members.

Get involved: Join our growing community of members, investors and volunteers.