Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what criteria will be used to determine community access to Great British Energy (a) capacity-building and (b) financial support.

Great British Energy is an operationally independent company and will make its own decisions on how it supports the community energy sector.

We expect initial plans to be published as part of the Local Power Plan, which will be published in due course.

The Local Power Plan is a joint DESNZ and GBE strategy which will drive the long-term growth of the UK’s local and community energy sector over this Parliament.