Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when her Department plans to bring forward reforms to enable community energy schemes to sell electricity directly to local households and businesses.

The Government recognises the barriers community energy schemes face in selling their energy directly to local households and businesses. The Government is exploring policy and regulatory options that will enable better market access for community energy groups, including enabling routes to directly supply local households and businesses.

The Government is monitoring Ofgem’s developments relating to code modification P441, which is intended help community energy groups and other local renewable energy projects identify and understand different routes to selling energy in their local markets.