All 1 Lloyd Russell-Moyle contributions to the Energy Act 2023

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Tue 5th Sep 2023

Energy Bill [Lords]

Lloyd Russell-Moyle Excerpts
Report stage
Tuesday 5th September 2023

(1 year, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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The Government and I have been in considerable discussion about precisely that point. We need to make sure we change the model of ownership of those devices. We perhaps need to have a longer debate about that on another occasion.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle Portrait Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown) (Lab/Co-op)
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My hon. Friend is making an important point about new clause 53, which stands in his name and those of his Front-Bench colleagues. Is not it the case at the moment that the grids—the national grid and the local distribution networks—do not have a duty to positively engage with small-scale and community electricity suppliers to encourage them on to the grid and instead just put them at the bottom of a list that is first come, first served? The new clause will start to change that approach, which is supportive and nurturing in its essence.