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The government must radically overhaul the ‘closed shop’ energy market by unleashing the community sector to enable more people across the country to play their part in developing a clean energy future, says a new publication from ‘Big Society’ think-tank ResPublica.

The report warns that failure to recognise and back the UK’s huge community energy potential could have serious consequences on the government’s climate change, emissions and fuel poverty targets.  Community generation in Germany contributes one-quarter of all renewable energy - in the UK it’s less than one per cent. It sets out a series of recommendations designed to open up the energy market which is dominated by the Big Six energy companies and says that the government must “broker in the social, environmental and economic benefits of community energy.”

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Date Published
13 February 2012