Community Energy England is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping community energy organisations create and implement new projects by advocating for a policy landscape that will support community energy and providing opportunities for community energy practitioners to connect, learn, share business models and help each other overcome obstacles.
Their 2025 UK Community Energy State of the Sector report is the most comprehensive overview of the scale, impact and challenges facing the UK’s community energy movement.
Key findings:
£24.5m reinvested directly into local communities (up 138% on 2023)
£68.5m turnover across community energy organisations (up 58%)
575 GWh generated — enough to power 212,000 homes
614 organisations, supported by 213,000 volunteers and 5,000 staff
Communities are cutting bills, tackling fuel poverty, creating jobs, and building local resilience. But despite modest growth in renewable generation, new project pipelines are shrinking, stalled capacity is rising, and policy/grid barriers risk slowing progress.
The report sets out clear recommendations to unlock community energy’s potential – from removing grid barriers to expanding access to land, rooftops and finance. Community Energy England believes that with the right support, the sector could scale rapidly and play a vital role in meeting the UK’s 2030 clean power targets.
Download the full report here: bit.ly/CE-SOTS
In 2022, Community Energy England created a national map with the most comprehensive dataset of community energy organisations and projects in England. The map contains all the data available on sites of community energy activity, primarily renewable energy generation but also some energy advice and energy efficiency services. In 2024, all the map data was brought into into a new community energy data portal, enabling organisations’ to review and add to the dataset. The map was relaunched in July with this revised dataset.