GBE Local Announces Strategic Local Power Plan for Communities

Communities across the UK are set to benefit from the Local Power Plan and GBE Local investment strategy. By supporting local partners and creating bankable project pipelines, the initiative keeps the financial and social benefits of the energy transition within communities while helping the UK reach its 2035 targets.

As an organisation dedicated to the practical delivery of community energy, we see this transition from a traditional grant-dependent market to a proactive ‘market-maker’ model as the vital missing link required to hit our 2035 targets.

By working through professionalised local partners to bundle projects into a replicable and bankable pipeline, GBE Local is creating the industrial scale and long-term certainty needed to unlock regional development at pace.

It also ensures the financial and social benefits of the energy transition stay firmly within our communities, reinvesting revenues locally to create a sustainable model for local power across the UK.

We really hope that many of the local area project developers that we have supported over the years will engage with the new framework – worth noting that you can submit project portfolio proposals via this expression of interest form