1) The Bill should place a duty on the Secretary of State to promote new renewable energy generation capacity from community schemes.
2) The fixed Feed-in Tariff scheme should be extended. The current cap of 5MW should be increased to 20MW in order to allow community energy schemes a guaranteed income and enable them to participate effectively in the energy market.
3) The Bill should establish a market for community energy schemes and independent renewables generators, through the creation of a ‘green power auction market’ or similar mechanism.

CfR provides investment, expertise and management capacity to help local energy cooperatives develop renewable electricity and heat generation projects in their locality under business models that enable local ownership, local income generation and where possible local energy supply arrangements.

CfR also provides advisory services to community energy co-operatives, public sector bodies and commercial companies to help them develop and implement community energy strategies.

Their vision ”is a world where sustainability is second nature, carbon emissions have been cut to safe levels and fuel poverty has been replaced by energy justice.”

Their mission ”is to share our knowledge and practical experience to empower people to change the way they think and act about energy.”