Community Energy
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his proposed timeline is for implementing community energy generation and storage across the UK.
Answered by Michael Shanks
This Government is hugely ambitious about the role that local and community energy will play in achieving our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower.
On 10 February 2026, Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero published the Local Power Plan which sets out the UK’s largest ever public investment in community energy.
Backed by up to £1 billion, GBE aims to support more than 1,000 local and community energy projects by 2030.
DESNZ will issue a Call for Evidence in 2026 to assess the role of community batteries in the transition and identify measures to scale deployment.
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