BHESCo
Community energy co-operative cutting bills and carbon for homes, businesses and schools
About the partnership
Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative (BHESCo) is a not-for-profit community energy co-operative based in Brighton. Founded by Kayla Ente, its chief executive, and registered as a co-operative in 2013, it exists to make clean, affordable energy accessible to everyone. It removes the technical and financial barriers that stop homeowners, businesses, schools and community organisations from cutting their energy use and switching to low-carbon power.
BHESCo has funded solar panels and other clean energy installations, including on Brighton & Hove schools, by raising more than £1 million through community share and bond offers, with local people investing directly and becoming members. Its team of commercial energy assessors and retrofit specialists has carried out more than 1,000 energy surveys for small and medium-sized businesses across Sussex. Alongside this, the co-operative supports residents struggling with fuel poverty, and it won the Community Energy and Carbon Saving Award in 2019.
In 2026 East Sussex County Council appointed Always Possible to deliver its Sustainable Business Programme, Be Business Energy Wise, with BHESCo as our specialist energy partner. The programme helps small and medium-sized businesses across all five East Sussex districts cut their energy costs and become more sustainable.
BHESCo’s assessors are carrying out in-depth energy audits for businesses with higher energy use, from community and sports centres to firms in industrial units. Each audit includes an on-site survey, thermal imaging where useful, analysis of bills and meter data, and a fully costed action plan setting out savings, payback and carbon reductions. BHESCo also leads the programme’s practical workshops on cutting energy costs and protecting against price volatility. We run the programme, from recruiting and supporting businesses to lighter-touch one-to-one sessions, workshops on credible sustainability marketing and the circular economy, case studies and a lasting toolkit of resources.
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