UK MPs warn community energy schemes need faster grid connections and profit-sharing to meet 2030 clean power targets
By
Sumit Bose
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Summary
A UK parliamentary committee (Energy Security and Net Zero Committee) warns that community-owned renewable energy projects are being left behind due to grid delays, weak revenue models, planning barriers, and retail system issues. The report urges the government to ensure communities hosting renewable projects "see profits as well as pylons" to maintain public support for the 2030 clean power targets. It recommends faster grid connections, better revenue models, and the ability for local energy schemes to sell power locally.
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Community ownership is in danger of being left behind, with local energy projects facing grid delays, weak revenue models, planning barriers and a retail system that makes it too hard to sell power locally
The Government risks missing a major opportunity to build public support for its 2030 clean power targets unless community energy is treated as...
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