Community Energy Wales

If you are using this scheme to provide awards of subsidy, you must inform the Subsidy Control Unit – email scu@gov.wales

All-Wales

Community Energy Wales

Section 60(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 and Section 1 of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975

The objective of the subsidy is to maintain a programme that provides tailored support to community groups to realise their ambitions for community energy regeneration. This supports wider objectives for Wales to generate renewable energy to at least fully meet our energy needs and use surplus generation to tackle the nature and climate emergencies. This will in part be delivered by accelerating actions to reduce energy demand and maximise local ownership retaining economic and social benefits in Wales.

The objective of this subsidy and delivery of CEW directly responds to Wales’s energy targets, adopted in 2023:

• For Wales to meet the equivalent of 100% of its annual electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2035.
• For at least 1.5 GW of renewable energy capacity to be locally owned by 2035, scaling up our original target for 1 GW by 2030.

The scheme is aligned with Future Wales, the national development framework, which sets the direction for development in Wales to 2040. It seeks to:

Facilitate the decarbonisation of the economy, including energy and transport choices, and promote the principles of a circular economy.

Welsh Government published policy statement of the 18 February 2020 sets out how increasing Welsh ownership of energy generation will increase prosperity in Wales. This policy statement outlines Welsh Government position to support the community energy sector, reflecting the lack of capacity, resources and support to develop projects unaided in a very competitive market.

Our support for community energy is designed to enable community groups to meet local energy needs from renewable resources and retain any benefits locally.

The subsidy is for Community Energy Wales (CEW) the organisation is a not-for-profit membership administration that supports and represents community energy (CE) projects in Wales. Ynni Teg (YT), the developer arm of the partnership, was established to provide direct practical support to project managers in the sector. YT also develops and operates its own projects to deliver revenues to fund future activities of both organisations. The subsidy will be for the financial year 2025-2026.

Welsh Government

Maintain a programme that provides tailored support to community groups to realise their ambitions for community energy regeneration. This supports wider objectives for Wales to generate renewable energy to at least fully meet our energy needs and use surplus generation to tackle the nature and climate emergencies. This will in part be delivered by accelerating actions to reduce energy demand and maximise local ownership retaining economic and social benefits in Wales.

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply.

01 April 2025 to 31 March 2028.

£1,300,000

All subsidy awarded under the scheme will be awarded by way of grants.

Support will aid community groups to support wider objectives for community energy regeneration.

Support will be carefully targeted to ensure delivery of the subsidy objectives, and the funding agreement will include a range of key performance indicators (KPI’s), which will be used as a management tool to assess CEW’s performance.

£99,000