Each of the five regional Energy Hubs is leading on a national energy project to produce a set of toolkits. These resources will share good practice and information for use by Local Enterprise Partnerships, local authorities and other local energy project developers across England.
The work is funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Outputs will be posted on this website as they become available.
An investigation of the current approaches to spatial mapping of energy assets, infrastructure and data. All Energy Hubs and their stakeholders will be consulted, to understand how a national approach for energy mapping might be beneficial, and how it should be designed and delivered. A proposal will be developed for a national platform for regional energy mapping that all five Energy Hubs can use.
Difficulty in obtaining finance and investment is a common barrier that prevents the progress of local energy projects. This is an introductory guide to the opportunities for collaborative investment, designed for local enterprise partnerships and local authorities.
This is a suite of high-level guidance, designed for local authorities with less experience of the local energy sector. The suite includes a local energy guide (with executive summary) which sets out the current context and explains the role of the Local Energy Hubs. Also available is a guide to local authority energy procurement. Finally, there is a full step-by-step guide, which explains how local authorities or community energy groups can develop a local energy project.
A set of resources that identify and organise information relevant to the delivery of energy projects across England. The document is intended to support organisations that are making a strategic case for action and is for use by local energy hubs and the public sector organisations they support. It is designed to raise awareness of best practice, funding options and enabling programmes.
The document is organised on a thematic basis. The first sections are devoted to the national policy and governance context; subsequent sections are devoted to economic sectors and to cross-cutting areas of action.
This study explores the market for local energy in rural and urban fringe areas and its potential for generating revenue. It includes a review of the market structure, physical infrastructure and government policy. The report sets out seven ownership models for local energy resources and provides a selection of case studies.
