Lords and Baronesses vote new community energy amendment into the Energy Bill

25th September 2023: Last week, the House of Lords voted in favour of including a new amendment to the Energy Bill that commits the Government to a strict timeframe for the forthcoming consultation on removing the barriers that hold back community energy’s growth.

This means that MPs will have a further opportunity to debate community energy when the Energy Bill returns to the House of Commons on 18th October.

This further evidence of actions in both Houses of Parliament aimed at helping community energy grow shows what collective efforts of the public have done. Before our nationwide public advocacy campaign started a few years ago, community energy was not a topic that MPs, Lords or Baronesses repeatedly pushed at Parliamentary debates. Now they do – and Ministers are responding ever more positively.

Click the link below to watch our highlights video of the debate and vote.