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Conference
Community Energy Wales' Conference
Beyond 2035
Every year, Community Energy Wales organises a conference that gathers together our membership and other stakeholders in the sector to discuss our future, the amazing work happening today, and the challenges that are ahead of us.
Our next conference will take place at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth. Our theme will be Beyond 2035 - looking at the long term future of community energy in Wales. It will start at midday 10.6.24 and end midday 11.6.24.
Last year’s conference was superb. Great people. Wonderful hospitality. Inspiring venue.Ben Saltmarsh, National Energy Action
The CEW conference was great. The sector has really missed these opportunities to come together and share our experiences. Really good to see old friends and make new ones. Congratulations to all at Community Energy Wales for hosting such a successful event.Grant Peisley - DEG
As A House Becomes Home
A poem inspired by the Community Energy Wales Conference by Hanan Issa, the National Poet of Wales.
Begin with the trees. Ask them for their twigs, their branches.
Gather people. Promise them futures, late night conversations
on the names for wind and rain,
or the difference between downpour and deluge.
To those who confess, “I don’t have the energy,”
offer reassurance. Tell them having time to care is luxury
Begin to burn the money - watch closely as folded disposable notes
dance and shift, returning renewed warmth.
Celebrate the transition - tethered to each of you/ all of you,
feel your feet sinking into soil, as a house becomes home.
Ownerships merge over time -
We own the land.
We own land.
We one land.
We. Land.
Soon our shared muscles will stiffen till memory remains
the only limb we can sway with the wind.
Listen for the children.
Here they come, arms outstretched,
asking for your twigs, your branches.
Hanan Issa