Solar SOAS

23/11/2021

£5000 Green Community Fund!

£5,000 is available for the SOAS community to apply for with your environmental project ideas! This is open to students, staff, and alumni. The funds are from the solar panels that were installed on the roof of the Old Building as part of the student-led project Solar SOAS. Solar SOAS is a community energy project, and the funds that are generated go into an annual fund to help further environmental projects at SOAS.

This year is our 5th anniversary of getting the panels installed (our birthday is 26th September, 2016). To celebrate, a Green Community Fund of £5000 is up for grabs!

The deadline for submissions is 5th January 2022. If you have questions about the criteria or the form, please email [email protected]. We encourage you to apply!

You can find the full criteria and application form for your bid on the Solar SOAS website here: http://www.uni-solar.org/apply-for-the-community-fund

26/09/2021

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY Solar SOAS!

Today marks exactly *five* years since 114 solar panels were installed on the roof of the SOAS Main Building. This was part of a successful student-led project to set up a community energy project at SOAS. The panels are owned and run by the SOAS community, and they've been generating electricity (and £££ from the government) ever since.

To celebrate, the Solar SOAS Green Community Fund has been increased to £5,000 this year - which is open and available to students, staff, and alumni with environmental project ideas to benefit SOAS. Check out more details and how to apply here - http://www.uni-solar.org/apply-for-the-community-fund - Deadline is November 15th.

We are also running a Solar Tour of the panels on Thursday 30th September at 1:00PM, meeting on the SOAS Main Building steps! Please come along if you'd like a rare chance to get up on the SOAS roof to check out the panels and the lovely view. No need to book! These tours happen less than once a year, so please do come along if you can. Please note the tour involves climbing a steep ladder, as this is the only way to access the roof (apologies about this). Hope to see you there!

23/08/2021

Give our new blog by Chris Vrettos a read to learn about the development of in Europe, and the exciting work of the first solar energy community in Greece ☀️

The spark for community energy in Europe In 2018, through the “Clean Energy for all Europeans” Package of Directives, the European Commission formally endorsed the idea that the clean energy transition has to happen with citizen participation at its heart. Amongst other things, this package ef

22/05/2020

Hear from SOAS Cycle-Op, the winners of the Green Community Fund last academic year, in the latest blog post on our website ~ Check it out here ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

Hear from SOAS Cycle-Op - the winners of the Solar SOAS Green Community Fund 2018/19!

08/01/2020

Check out our latest blog post about UCL's student-led solar project!! Work was carried out by the UCL Clean Energy Society. This project was partly inspired by Solar SOAS, who helped support the initial stages of getting things going.

If you are interested in starting your own project (either at a university or elsewhere), please get in touch!

Read more here:

UCL’s student-led solar project on Langton Close

05/12/2019

The SOAS Green is under threat of being built on! Follow this fb page to keep up to date with info and how to get involved to stop this happening

The SOAS Green is being threatened with development and we must now occupy the space in order to save it!

22/11/2019

GREEN COMMUNITY FUND OPEN!

Apply for up to £2,000! Great opportunity if you are interested in starting up or supporting an existing environment-related project on campus. Fund open to the SOAS community.

Deadline is 1st Dec, apply here: http://www.uni-solar.org/apply-for-the-community-fund

06/11/2019

The 2019 Green Community Fund is now OPEN!!

Have you got an environmental project or campaign idea that you'd like to see happen at SOAS? Apply for the £2000 Green Community Fund!

This money has been raised from the solar panels on the roof of the SOAS Main Building, which were installed in 2016 as part of the student project Solar SOAS.

The fund is always undersubscribed, so we strongly encourage you to apply if you've got an idea! If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. Check out requirement

Deadline: 1st Dec

17/10/2019

Big CONGRATS to Fossil Free UCL!!!!

UCL DIVESTS AFTER 7 YEARS OF SUPPRESSING STUDENT PROTEST !!

UCL originally held around £16 million in fossil fuel shares, notably in Royal Dutch Shell, and yesterday they made the decision to divest completely.

Although we are pleased UCL has finally divested, we are disappointed that today’s decision makes UCL one of the last UK universities to divest and after a history of intense clamp-down on student protest, threats of disciplinary action, policing and surveillance of activists.

Divesting after years of students’ campaign should NOT be perceived as the symbol of positive change from UCL management but the proof that the latter has tried, by all means, to rip us of our right to make higher education better, more accessible and for its students.

Full press release here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bIJRkpMYiXFAmldLQkCn6YB2bMkcRGC9T0V003vel_4/edit?usp=sharing

01/10/2019

Hi all!! Apologies the solar tour had to be re-scheduled again today due to weather - will keep you updated about a new date in future!!

18/09/2019

Thinking about getting involved in the climate strike on Friday? Come along to these events happening at SOAS on Friday!!