The Local Power Plan sets out a clear vision and plan to revolutionise the UK’s local and community energy sector. Growing the sector will give communities and organisations across the UK a direct stake in a clean, green, more affordable energy future.
We’d like to hear from you if you:
are a community energy organisation
are a local authority or part of the public sector
are currently developing a community or local energy project
Whatever stage you’re at in your engagement with a community or local renewable energy project, we’d welcome your input.
We want to understand how many projects need project delivery investment and how many want early-stage support. This will help us design and develop our services and products.
The information you provide will help us:
build a clearer picture of the projects and proposals that exist across the country
inform the design of future GBE products and approaches
support coordinated engagement with the local and community energy sector
Completing the Expression of Interest (EOI) is entirely optional and is not required in order to contact GBE directly for informal discussions, or engage via local authorities, combined authorities, or other partners.
This EOI is simply GBE’s first step toward coordinated engagement on local and community power, to build a shared understanding of what projects are emerging across the country.
Whether you’re at an early or more advanced stage of your project development or just starting to get interested in a local or community energy project, you may wish to use this Expression of Interest form to request subscription to our mailing list. We’ll use this to share news about our future initiatives as they are announced.
Increasing community benefits, community ownership and community cohesion are central to our vision. Great British Energy (GBE) is a partner with Government for the delivery of the Local Power Plan and GBE, along with its trusted partners, will:
We cannot achieve this alone, want to work in partnership to develop community and local energy projects. We have already started developing our partnership approach and are working with Mayoral Strategic Authorities and non-Mayoral Combined Authorities to form long term partnerships that:
We have already formalised 10 agreements with:
We are in advanced discussions with others.
If you’re based in Scotland, please check out the Scottish Government’s CARES programme for community energy and if you’re based in Wales, the Welsh Government Energy Service.