TRESOC

27/03/2026

🏆🏆 What a night!

We're absolutely thrilled to share that TRESOC has won not one, but TWO awards at the Regen Green Energy Awards 2026 in Bristol!

We won the Community Energy Initiative Award, recognising the work we've been doing with Energy Local Totnes to build a fairer, greener local energy market right here in Totnes.

And in an historic first, our Managing Director, Dr Sally Murrall-Smith, jointly won the Net Zero Energy Pioneer Award alongside Dr Mary Gillie, founder of Energy Local CIC – the first time the award has ever been given to two winners!

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, and thanks to Regen for a wonderful evening, celebrating the best of the clean energy sector.

16/03/2026

We're hiring! 🌊⚡

Energy Local Totnes is looking for a Co-ordinator / Energy Advisor to join our small but mighty team.

If you're passionate about community energy and want to help grow something genuinely pioneering, we'd love to hear from you.

🕐 Approx 4 hours/week 💷 £20/hour 📍 Local to Totnes

As seen on BBC One's The One Show, Energy Local Totnes is a community-led energy club helping households and businesses save on their bills using locally generated hydro and solar power.

We've just been shortlisted at Regen's Green Energy Awards 2026, and with 137 members and growing, now is a great time to get involved.

Apply by noon on 30th March 2026 to [email protected]

Full details: www.tresoc.co.uk/jobs

Transition Town Totnes Sustainable South Hams South Dartmoor Community Energy Totnes Pulse Community Energy England REconomy Project: Totnes

10/02/2026

BIG NEWS! 📢 TRESOC has secured funding from Great British Energy! 🇬🇧⚡️

We are proud to be part of the historic Local Power Plan, bringing £1bn of investment to community energy across the UK.

With this support, we are building a 100kW solar installation at Dart Marine Park at Steamers Quay. This isn't just about solar panels – it's about people power. The energy generated will:

✅ Power local businesses at the park
✅ Supply our Energy Local Totnes club, cutting electricity bills for local homes
✅ Keep money circulating in our town.

This is what the future of energy looks like: local, renewable, and community-owned. Watch this space for our community share offer coming in Summer 2026!

29/01/2026

Energy Local Totnes is saving its members up to 30% on their energy bills, helping to reduce carbon emissions and keeping more money local. Learn more at www.tresoc.co.uk/elt

24/01/2026

Amazing things happen when a community comes together to create sustainable energy for the whole town - with a little help from 100Green and Energy Local CIC.

20/11/2025

14/11/2025

Can you spare 10 minutes to help shape the future of community energy?

🚨 DEADLINE 5PM TODAY (14th Nov) 🚨

An electricity market regulatory change called P441 is currently out for consultation, which would make local energy supply schemes – like Energy Local Totnes – considerably more viable across the UK. P441 is essential to help protect households from energy price shocks and help us decarbonise faster.

👉 P441 Consultation Form: https://www.elexon.co.uk/bsc/consultation/p441-assessment-procedure-consultation-on-complex-site-classes/

👉 Guidance notes for TRESOC supporters to complete the form:https://tresoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/P441-Guidance-Notes-for-TRESOC-Members.pdf

Thank you!

24/10/2025

On Saturday 18th October, we joined fellow energy organisations and partners at Kingsbridge Community College for this year’s South Hams Energy Assembly – an inspiring day organised by Sustainable South Hams and South Dartmoor Community Energy and supported by South Hams District Council.

The event’s aim is to connect, support and inspire action to accelerate the transition to energy resilience in the South Hams. It brings together community organisations, councillors, rural businesses, housing associations and other local decision makers and interested individuals, together with experts from local energy organisations, installers and related companies.

The conversations and presentations were thoroughly engaging, focusing on practical solutions communities can implement while keeping financial benefits local – with Jem (pictured, with Caroline Voaden MP) presenting the impressive facts and figures from ELT’s first year of operation.

It was a useful reminder that we're part of a wider network across the South Hams making real change happen. The appetite for community energy solutions is huge, and it’s encouraging to see we're all pushing in the same direction.

21/10/2025

Energy Local, a non-profit, creates a way for customers to team up with green projects to get a better deal

16/10/2025

🎬 This is the film we've all been waiting for – and it's screening at Totnes Cinema from Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd October!

POWER STATION follows artist-activists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell (the brilliant minds behind Bank Job) as they transform their ordinary Walthamstow street into a solar-powered community energy revolution.

This uplifting documentary captures the financial and emotional rollercoaster of making change happen together, and proves what's possible when communities take energy into their own hands ... something we can all appreciate.

Monday's screening includes a panel discussion with Rob Hopkins, Transition Town Totnes and TRESOC's Sally Murrall-Smith, so get your tickets now!

Book tickets: https://buff.ly/61T9WpM

Learn more: https://power.film

Power Station began in the depths of lockdown - and in the aftermath of our previous film Bank Job, where we purchased and blew up £1.2 million of local debt - with the question ‘'what could we do from where we live, with the people around us, to build power - of energy and imagination?’

14/10/2025

Want to save 10-30% on electricity? Want to keep money in the local economy? Live in or around Totnes? Then join Energy Local Totnes, the community energy club for buying and selling renewable electricity at a fair price. Learn more at www.tresoc.co.uk/elt

14/10/2025

South Hams Energy Assembly 2025: Saturday 18th October, Kingsbridge

The South Hams Energy Assembly connects, supports and inspires action to accelerate the transition to energy resilience in the South Hams – and Energy Local Totnes will be there, sharing our successes and learnings from our first year of operation. But there's more...

The Assembly is bringing together community organisations, councillors, rural businesses, housing associations and other local decision makers and interested individuals, together with experts from local energy organisations, installers and related companies. The Assemblies have a track record of sparking new connections and igniting new projects. Join us there for workshops, keynote speakers, exhibitions and networking – plus a tasty lunch!

Saturday 18th October, 9:30 am – 3:30pm, Kingsbridge Community College, Balkwill Road, Kingsbridge, TQ7 1PL

There are 3 tiers of tickets available: £7.50 unwaged; £15 individual, community group, councillor, non-profit; £25 business, commercial.

Spaces are limited, so book your place now at: https://buff.ly/4Wm08vN