Community Energy

Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 27 February 2014.

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Photo of Alan Whitehead Alan Whitehead Labour, Southampton, Test 9:30, 27 February 2014

The Minister will be aware that a number of community-based combined heat and power schemes that were proceeding exactly on the basis set out in the strategy paper he mentioned have now collapsed thanks to the changes in the energy company obligation that his Department announced recently. Does he intend to take steps to use the resources he has mentioned, as set out in the community energy strategy, to help retrieve those schemes? If not, what message does he think will be sent on the future of the community energy strategy as a whole?