”Turbocharging” Community Energy with Community Energy England

Some highlights from Community Energy England’s Newsletter.
We expect their full newsletter to be posted on their website in the near future but for now here’s some highlights we’d like to showcase:

https://communityenergyengland.org/pages/newsletter#CEE%20Member%20Newsletter

Urge the government to ‘turbocharge’ community energy

”The Net Zero Review recommended the government “turbocharge community energy”. The Chancellor will make his Spring Statement on 15 March and there are rumours of a Green Investment Plan.

There are opportunities for the government to turbocharge community energy, with a National Community Energy Fund, reinstating Social Investment Tax Relief and other measures. But they will need prompting.”

There is a template letter and tweet, that can be used to contact relevant MP’s asking them to champion community energy:

Harness your MP :
https://communityenergyengland.org/pages/harnessing-our-mps#Sample%20MP%20email/letter

There are also some excellent resources on the upcoming Onshore wind reforms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGk5FFrxRp0

https://www.regen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Regen-Briefing-Note-Planning-Reforms-for-Onshore-Wind-February-2023.pdf