Edinburgh Solar has awarded its 2026 round of community funding: a further £20,000 to support local organisations that benefit the community. That brings our total to more than £100,000 awarded since the fund launched. This year, recipients include Edinburgh Tool Library (a lending library for tools – saving residents money and reducing waste) and Eric…

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2026 Edinburgh Community Solar Co-op Community Fund. Organisations can apply for grants to fund the following: Last year we made 14 awards to organisations in Edinburgh, you can find out who and watch our compilation video here. Applications for this year will be…

At the end of April, we completed long-planned work to improve the efficiency of our solar array on the roof of Tumbles at Portobello. We have over 400 panels on Tumbles’ roof, with a generating capacity of 125kw. To give an idea of what this means, common residential solar panel system sizes in the UK…