Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Policies to Unlock Community Energy Finance in the United Kingdom
Community energy (CE) represents a potentially critical means of accelerating a sustainable and equitable energy transition. However, in many countries, it is experiencing a period of stagnation, typically following the dilution or removal of supportive government policies. In the absence of substantive capital grant funding, attracting capital finance has become increasingly important for the CE sector but remains highly challenging to secure at scale. Policy solutions are therefore needed to unlock finance and catalyse CE sector growth.
May 2023
