WEST SOLENT SOLAR CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED DELIVERING COMMUNITY OWNED GREEN POWER

West Solent Solar Co-operative operates a 2.4MW solar farm which went live on 27th June 2014. We supply our power into the public grid, generating enough electricity to power approximately 650 homes.

The Co-op has 469 members who each invested capital to enable us to raise £2.6 million to build this major community energy project. We operate as a member-owned company limited by shares and follow the cooperative principle of ‘one member, one vote’. Our annual operating surplus is distributed to our members and to a community benefit fund which makes grants to local sustainability projects.

Information about the Coop

	469 members who are all shareholders in the company and have equal voting rights in running it
	7 Directors, each of whom carry out roles that deliver specific support to the benefit of the Co-op
	The Board appointed Energy4All to carry out the day-to-day management & administration of the Co-op
	A portion of profits from the scheme are distributed to community funds in the local area

2026 Annual General Meeting

Our 2026 Annual General Meeting is being held on Saturday 26 September 2026 at 10am. This will be a hybrid AGM, with the physical meeting taking place at Lyndhurst Community Centre, with members also able to join online via Zoom.

Previous AGMs

Our 2025 Annual General Meeting took place at Lyndhurst Community Centre as a hybrid meeting on 19 July 2025. In addition to updates on the performance of our project, we had two extremely interesting presentations from a couple of our grant recipients, Kate Forrester from Four Acre Farm at Ringwood gave a talk, followed by Mike Weston from Lyndhurst Community Centre who talked about their LED lighting project. Minutes, recordings and the presentation slides can be viewed in the Member’s Area.

Our AGMs are much more than just a formality and have become a great opportunity for our community of shareholders to meet and share success stories in the fight against climate change.

Biodiversity Tour

We are hosting our annual Biodiversity Tour for members and friends at the solar farm on Saturday June 20th 2026 at 11am. To register to attend, please click here.

View Solar Farm output live online

Output performance figures for the farm can now be viewed live online in our Unity interface. Click on the graph below to view performance over different time periods.

View live performance figures.