Member

I turn now to community energy, which I recognise this is of great importance to noble Lords. It is important in itself because of the contribution it can make and because it can leverage in community support for clean power. As noble Lords have said, this cannot be taken for granted, so I said on day 1 of Committee that we are reflecting on this and on the debate, as we will on today’s debate. Of course, Clause 3 already allows for community energy to be supported, and the local power plant—which is going to be one of the five key functions of GBE—will enable GBE already to support and champion local and community energy. I also take the point about the potential of developing up to 8 gigawatts of local and community energy projects.