Policy paper

Community Energy Strategy

The role that communities can play in helping to meet the UK’s energy and climate change challenges.

• From: Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 27 January 2014
• Last updated: 17 April 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Community Energy Strategy

Ref: 14D/019

PDF, 1.98 MB, 108 pages

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Community Energy Strategy Summary

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Letter to local authority Leaders in England

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Details

This is the first ever Community Energy Strategy published by a UK government. It sets out the role that communities can play in helping to meet the UK’s energy and climate change challenges, including supporting a sustainable and secure energy system; reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions; and lowering consumer bills.

• An update to the strategy was published in March 2015.

Community energy covers many different types of community getting involved in different ways to help meet the UK’s energy challenges. The Community Energy Strategy sets out how communities are already coming together to generate electricity and heat, reduce energy use, save money on the energy they buy, and balance supply and demand.

The document brings together existing policies and initiatives with new actions to provide a coherent package of support across the spectrum of community energy. It is accompanied by a short summary document and a letter from the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and the Local Government Association to local authority Leaders in England.

The supporting research and modelling can be found at the following links:

• Community Renewable Electricity Generation: Potential Sector Growth to 2020
• Community Energy in the UK: Part 2
• Learnings from the DECC Community Energy Efficiency Outreach Programme
• DECC Local Energy Assessment Fund (LEAF) Evaluation Report
• Local Authority Competition Evaluation Report

Published 27 January 2014
Last updated 17 April 2014 + show all updates

1. 17 April 2014

   Added letter to local authority leaders in England.

2. 27 January 2014

   First published.