Let’s clear a path for local energy

Community energy is one of the most transformative opportunities of the energy transition. It involves renewable energy and also a change of ownership. It democratises energy at the same time as decarbonising it. It breaks the power of the big fossil fuel companies, and creates an inclusive energy market where everyone can have a stake in the the energy that they depend on.

Perhaps it isn’t surprising that some people hate it so much, and Britain’s blossoming community energy sector was very...