About Energy4All

At Energy4All we have a two-fold mission: to support the UK’s transition to a low carbon energy system, and to do this in a way that offers ordinary people an opportunity to make a tangible contribution to tackling climate change.

Energy4All are based in Barrow-In-Furness in North West England, and our organisation was created by Baywind Co-operative, the UK's first wind energy cooperative, to develop other community owned renewable energy projects across the UK.

We work with communities that want to develop cooperatively owned renewable energy.  We help those communities develop a successful business case, and support projects through planning applications. Energy4All then helps the communities raise funds through public share and bond offers, brings the technical expertise to build projects to time and budget, and then manages their continued operation.

Once built and operational those new cooperatives become share holder members of Energy4All and support the development of more community energy projects through their membership, just as those that went before them.

We currently support more than 30 cooperatives, spanning all major renewable energy technologies. Several of the coops are award winning, and Energy4All itself has won the Community Energy England award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Energy and the Ashden Award as a Climate Champion.

If you have a project in mind that you want to discuss with us, have a look through the 'Work With Us' menu to learn a little more about our process and then get in touch.

About Energy4All: What do we do
The Energy4All Development Model

A brief history...

  • 1996

    1996

    The Baywind Co-operative is formed, the UK's first community wind farm co-operative. Baywind raised £2 million in a share offer in 1997, and purchased 6 wind turbines on Harlock Hill and Haverigg near Ulverston, Cumbria.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2002

    Following the success of Baywind, their 1200+ members enthusiastically support the creation of Energy4All, to help other communities in the UK achieve similar results.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2005

    Energy4All embark on their first shared-ownership project, Boyndie Wind Farm Co-operative on the north coast of Aberdeenshire. This is the first of 7 shared ownership projects completed in partnership with Falck Renewables Ltd (later Renantis and then Nadara Ltd), reaching as far as the Isle of Skye. Shared ownership projects give communities a partial share in a much bigger development.

    Westmill Wind Farm also join the Energy4All family, the first 100% community-owned wind farm (commissioned in 2008) to be built in the south of England.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2010

    Energy Prospects is set up by Energy4All, a distinct co-operative which doesn't have electricity-generating capacity but instead helps to finance the early development of other community energy projects across the UK.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2011-2015

    The Energy4All family grows to incorporate rooftop and ground-mount solar PV projects, hydropower projects, and a sustainable wood heat project. Projects are spread across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. In 2015 Energy4All reaches the milestone of 20 projects.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2018

    Annette Heslop, Director of Finance & Company Secretary, is awarded an MBE for services to community energy.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2022

    30 Projects in the Energy4All family, with a team of more than 30 staff supporting existing projects and exploring further development.

  • Apr 29, 2025

    2023

    Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, is awarded an MBE for services to community energy.