The Big Solar Gathering is free to attend and is primarily focussed on sharing learning, project updates, networking and getting to know our Investor and Volunteer Members better. It's invite only and our key annual in person event so we pack quite a bit in!

Here is what we got up to last year:

https://bigsolar.coop/big-solar-gathering-2024-outputs

And here is the agenda so far for 2025:

10:00 Registration

10:30 Welcome & BSC update - Jon Hallé (Big Solar Co-op)
10:50 Panel: A tale of two sites
Stephen Knight (Hornsey Steel Panels & Sections Ltd), Grant Wilson (Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre)

11:40 Coffee break

12:10 Presentation: Whiteborough solar park - doing groundmount right
Richard Lane (Sharenergy) & Jon Hallé (Big Solar Co-op), (Ethex)

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Workshop #1: Bringing in new sites to the Big Solar Co-op
Dean Hill (Big Solar Co-op) & Jo Nicholson (Big Solar Co-op)

14:00 Workshop #2: Community Solar Foundation Course
Noël Lambert (Big Solar Co-op) & Vicki Orttewell (Sharenergy)

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Workshop #3: What we have learnt from installs so far
Chris Rigby (Big Solar Co-op)

16:30 Closing comments - Chris Rigby (Big Solar Co-op)

Please get in touch with Noel Lambert if you have any questions: noel@bigsolar.coop

Big Solar Gathering 2025