Recently an organisation called Power for People brought forward the ‘Local Electricity Bill’ to the House of Commons to help breakdown the costs and complexity of being able to sell locally generated energy to local people, requesting they be made proportionately to the size of the operation.

We, Conservative District Councillors, signed an open letter to The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, delivered by South Cambridgeshire’s Anthony Browne MP. Our reasons for supporting this bill was that as Conservatives, we believe in small government and in power being held as close to those who are directly affected as possible.  We also believe in the importance of community and that a competitive market is a successful one. And most importantly we believe that communities ought to have the ability to fairly compete in the renewable energy market and this would help boost our national resolve to be carbon neutral by 2050. 

Communities could raise money to be spent locally on renewable projects and more jobs would be produced in local economies that ensured renewable energy is more widely and easily accessible by residents. We have urged the Government to support Community renewable energy initiatives and asked that they look to legislate accordingly.