Policy documents and consultations that may be of interest to community energy groups or that CEE is considering making a response to are included below (listed in date order of responses required). Draft responses will be added to this page for member comments along with our final submissions. If you would like to input into any of our responses, please email us.

You can view and download our previous consultation responses here.

Latest Consultation Opportunities

Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system
Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Deadline: 24 September 2024
This is the new government's first major consultation on planning, an area where they are proposing significant policy changes. This consultation seeks views on the government's proposed approach to revising the National Planning Policy Framework in order to achieve sustainable growth in the planning system. It includes questions on how the NPPF interacts with renewable energy schemes.

Flexibility Market Asset Registration Consultation
Ofgem
Deadline: 23 September 2024
Ofgem seeks your views on our proposals to focus policy interventions on achieving common Flexibility Market Asset Registration for ESO and DSO markets.
At present owners and operators of small-scale energy assets (smart devices such as heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers, and home battery energy storage systems) must register the same data, multiple times, in different ways, to access different flexibility markets. This is a barrier to entry for millions of small-scale energy assets trying to access flexibility markets and it prevents consumers from obtaining the maximum value from their assets.
Ofgem's Flexibility Market Asset Registration policy sets out proposals to overcome these challenges in a common, coordinated way.

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