Community Energy Coalition

The Community Energy Coalition believe that community energy can and should:

1. Enable all communities to collectively play a substantial role in meeting the UK’s carbon and renewables targets by saving energy and creating a secure, clean and affordable heat and electricity supply

2. Increase the scale of investment in renewable energy and energy saving and attract new individuals, communities and institutions to invest

3. Encourage people to act cooperatively to create sustainable communities and give everyone an equal opportunity to own and control shared assets democratically

4. Respect communities, the landscape and wildlife through genuine stakeholder involvement and management of natural assets for the benefit of current and future generations

5. Increase people’s awareness and support for renewable energy projects and encourage energy saving

The Community Energy Coalition are committed to making this happen collectively by:

1. Promoting community energy with our members and wider stakeholders as a powerful voice

2. Sharing best practice and creating an evidence base for the value that community energy creates

3. Asking central, devolved and local Government to join us in dramatically scaling up community and co-operative energy by integrating support for the sector across all policies in a public, long term and stable way and ensuring communities have access to appropriate financial and capacity support

More information

In addition to our vision, the Community Energy Coalition has created a Manifesto for Community Energy which details what we called on the Government to do in support of community energy.

If you're interested in getting involved, get in touch with Forum's Associate Director, Climate and Energy:

Will Dawson