Great British Energy, supported by the Green Finance Institute, is seeking views to help inform potential financing structures for portfolios of local clean energy projects.
GBE is exploring how smaller solar and storage projects on public-sector sites could be brought together into portfolios of sufficient scale to attract institutional investment. The approach being explored would bring smaller projects together into portfolios of investable scale, allowing private lenders and equity investors to consider them as a single proposition alongside GBE.
The survey seeks views on current market practice and the features that financing structures of this type may need. This includes portfolio scale, risk allocation, contractual arrangements, return requirements and other factors that could influence investor participation.
Feedback will help GBE and GFI explore the illustrative financing structures and build the evidence needed to develop a workable approach. The approach described here is one of several potential routes to bringing these assets to investable scale, and it sits alongside GBE's wider work to support local and community energy.
This is preliminary market engagement. Nothing in this survey or the accompanying pack constitutes an offer or a solicitation or raises any expectation of investment.
Who should respond
We particularly welcome responses from organisations involved in financing or investing in energy and infrastructure, including:
- banks and specialist lenders
- infrastructure debt and equity funds
- pension funds and insurers
- asset managers and developers
- community and local energy investors
Complete the survey
The survey is administered by the Green Finance Institute on behalf of GBE.
Complete the investor survey on the GFI Microsoft Form
Please respond by 23:59 on 30 October 2026.
This is preliminary market engagement. It does not constitute an offer, invitation or solicitation to enter into an investment or transaction, and does not raise any expectation of investment.
For questions about the survey, contact Karla Boban at the Green Finance Institute.