Question follow-through · 50180
Community Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing local supply rights for community energy schemes to sell clean power locally.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing local supply rights for community energy schemes to sell clean power locally.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
The Department is considering a range of reforms to unlock renewable investment and pass through the benefits of cheaper renewables to consumers. This includes potential changes to support local and community energy. The Secretary of State previously comm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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