Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether cooperatively owned wind farms be exempted from the revenue cap in the Energy Prices Bill.

The Government recognises the role community and locally owned renewable energy schemes can, and do, play in supporting the UK’s national net zero targets.  These projects help encourage innovation and investment as well as community engagement with the energy challenge.

The Government will shortly be consulting on the Cost- Plus Revenue Limit and the issue of having a minimum threshold for size of generation stations will be considered as well as whether it is appropriate for this mechanism to apply to community or local energy schemes.