Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of exempting co-operative owned wind farms from the Electricity Prices Bill revenue cap.

The Government recognises the role community and locally owned renewable energy schemes can, and do, play in supporting the UK’s national net zero targets.  These projects help encourage innovation and investment as well as community engagement with the energy challenge.

The Government will shortly be consulting on the Cost-Plus Revenue Limit, including whether there should be a minimum threshold for size of generation stations and whether it is appropriate for this mechanism to apply to community or local energy schemes.