A community energy group in East Sussex has secured a £40,000 grant from the government's Rural Community Energy Fund to lead the village out of "volatile costs and dirty air associated with oil and LPG boilers."
The Brighton Energy Co-operative has announced the launch of an EU-funded Community Solar Accelerator project that offers grants to promote community solar in small and medium enterprises up to 30 June 2023.
Policymakers have to support the needed transformation of community energy, which plays a key role in making an inclusive and socially just net-zero transition.
A network operator in England has made £15,000 available for at least five organisations to finance new or expanded community energy projects mostly located in its licence area.
The UK government this month closed the first round of bidding for its £150 million Community Ownership Fund to help community groups save local facilities, assets and amenities at risk of being lost.
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has started seeking written evidence on local authorities' work on achieving net-zero, following a blistering report which said the central government wasn’t helping them enough.