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The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is calling for the introduction of a floor price above zero for the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) to help support community energy.
This follows industry feedback gathered through a call for evidence regarding community energy issued by the EAC in February that saw 57 responses. Industry representatives told the committee that in its current form, the SEG – which came into effect in January 2020 and requires energy suppliers to offer an export tariff – is flawed because it provides no minimum export price, and no long-term certainty beyond 12-month periods .
As a result, the EAC is also recommending that the government extends the guarantee on the energy export price. These recommendations have been issued in a letter addressed to energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, detailing how while the SEG has replaced the feed-in tariff (FiT), it puts the community energy sector at a disadvantage to larger renewabl
Off grid homes harness river to power whole village
From Snowdonia waterfalls to solar panels on police stations, communities are trying to harness their own renewable energy
27 February 2021 • 6:00pm
Saskya Huggins (R) and Ruth Finar, who are both Volunteer Directors of the Osney Lock Hydro
Credit: John Lawrence
When a small community just west of Oxford watched as the Thames destroyed their houses in a dramatic flood, they realised just how powerful the river was.
Now, they have harnessed that force and protected their homes by using their little stretch for hydroelectric renewable energy.
The people of Osney Lock are just one of the communities which hope to be the first to go truly off grid under plans to allow local people to buy renewable energy which is generated nearby.
MP Fiona Bruce has backed a bill that supports the rights of people to tap into local energy supplies. The Local Electricity Bill, which is supported by a cross-party group of 238 MP s would see communities in Middlewich and Holmes Chapel to sell locally generated electricity directly to local households and businesses. Fiona Bruce has spoken out in favour of the bill that would also increase clean energy generation, whilst helping regenerate the local economy in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis. Fiona Bruce, MP for Congleton said: I am pleased to support the Local Electricity Bill which will empower community energy companies to sell energy that they generate directly to local people.
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