Member

In preparing for today, I also had the opportunity to listen to Jürgen Maier, who recently appeared before the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee. He also gave very strong statements and talked about an interesting concept of local community energy in a box, ready to go, ready to deploy anywhere in the country to get this stuff done. That brings me to the fundamental question: why are we debating this amendment if there is broad cross-party support for community energy? The answer is that despite the words and ambitions, we have actually made no progress on placing community energy, and a commitment to community energy, in the Bill.