Committees

Technological Innovations and Climate Change: Community Energy

Inquiry

The Environmental Audit Committee is conducting an overarching inquiry looking at technological innovations which could contribute to tackling climate change. Each part of the inquiry looks at a specific technology or strategy currently in use or in development and considers its potential and how Government policy can facilitate the UK making the best and most cost-effective use of that technology.

This session considers the role of community energy projects (schemes that are wholly owned and/or controlled by communities or through partnership with commercial or public sector partners) in the UK’s energy sector. This inquiry is an opportunity to highlight UK-based examples of innovation and excellence, and the Committee is particularly keen to hear from those at the cutting edge of each sector.

Read the call for evidence to learn more information about this inquiry.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Correspondence

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Letter from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to the Chair, responding to the 29 April letter from the Chair, dated 7 June 2021
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Chair to Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on removing the barriers to the development of community energy, dated 29 April 2021
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Oral evidence transcripts

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14 April 2021
Inquiry Technological Innovations and Climate Change: Community Energy
Witnesses Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-op (BHESCo), SE24 Sustainable Energy, and Awel Aman Tawe
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14 April 2021
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Witnesses Devon County Council, Northern Powergrid, and Northern Powergrid
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Written evidence

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Northumberland County Council (CEN0057)
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Ripple Energy (CEN0001)
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Dr Iacopo Savelli (Postdoctoral Researcher in Energy Market Design at University of Oxford), and Dr Thomas Morstyn (Lecturer of Power Electronics and Smart Grids at University of Edinburgh) (CEN0002)
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Other publications

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