Updates in community energy

This page is a repository of relevant news and research on community and publicly owned energy

Reports:

Power Failure (NEF 2015)

Briefing – Recommendations for improving grid connections for community energy projects in the UK (Client Earth 2015)

On the role local authorities are playing and can play in collaboration with community energy organisations to transform our energy system: City Energy A New Powerhouse for Britain (IPPR 2014)

Various ways local authorities can collaborate with community energy organisations: Introductory Guide – Community Energy for Local Authorities (Pure Leapfrog 2014)

Recommendations to DECC from a roundtable on community energy finance convened by the Centre for Sustainable Energy: Community Energy Finance Roundtable (CSE 2014)

Learning from Germany’s solar revolution: Creating Local Energy Economies – Lessons from Germany (ResPublica 2014)

Community Hydro Report of the DECC Working Group (Low Carbon Hub 2014)

On the importance of energy democracy and what can be achieved through civic leadership (cites Denmark’s wind revolution): Energy Beyond Neoliberalism (Platform 2014)

Think pieces:

If communities had a Right to Invest would that be a game changer?: The UK needs a Renewable Energy Right to Invest

UK Government’s Community Energy Strategy shows inconsistent progress (Client Earth)

Policy, responses to policy announcement and government consultations:

DECC’s Community Energy Strategy (DECC 2014)

DECC’s Community Energy Strategy Update (DECC 2015)

Co-operatives UK-led joint sectoral response to Community energy investment incentives

Co-operatives UK’s response to Community energy announcements in the Autumn Statement 2014

Key community energy organisations:

Westmill Solar Coop

Repowering London

Pure Leap Frog projects