The Community Energy State of the Sector research provides the most comprehensive and inclusive review of community energy in the UK, in collaboration with Community Energy Wales and Community Energy Scotland. Having access to data on the sector is vital for community energy organisations, stakeholders and policy makers to understand and communicate about the sector, encourage investment and bring about supportive policies.

Thank you to all organisations who provided data for this year's State of the Sector research.

UK sector overview

The first output from State of the Sector 2024 is our UK sector overview. This provides a summary of the community energy sector in the UK, showing how the sector has developed over 2022 & 2023 and equipping people and organisations within and beyond the sector with key data that demonstrates the scale and impact of the sector.

Download the UK sector overview

We encourage you to share the overview document with your members and investors and with your MPs, local authority contacts and other local stakeholders. We have provided the main infographic as a standalone file you can use for PowerPoint presentations.

What's next?

The UK sector overview is only the first part of our State of the Sector 2024 publications.

Later in the summer we will publish a more detailed, longer infographic that will tell the story of community energy, what the sector does and its unique characteristics and benefits. This narrative will be integrated with a wider range of statistics and insights into the development, impact and potential of community energy and the challenges the sector faces.

State of the Sector 2024 is generously sponsored by SP Energy Networks. This support is vital for enabling us to conduct the research.

National map

As part of developing the way we gather data for State of the Sector and further increase the value of the data for the sector, we added the data from our national map into the new data portal we launched earlier this year. Organisations who used the portal in the Spring have been able to edit and add to the data so we are relaunching the national map now with this updated data. Read more and access our national community energy map here.

Data Portal

This year we launched a new portal for providing community energy data. The portal will remain open all year for organisations to review and edit their data and add new sites of community energy activity - we will be regularly taking this site data and updating our national map through the year after we relaunch it.

Community energy organisations can join the portal all year round. The first user from a community energy organisation will need to email sots@communityenergyengland.org and we will grant access.

Once you have access, users can add other people associated with their organisation by inviting them via their email address – click on your organisation, then “Members”, then “+ Invite Members”.

Click here to access the new data portal

Thank you to our members and other providers of data for your ongoing support, and to SP Energy Networks for sponsoring State of the Sector 2024.

Previous reports and regional DNO reports

You can download previous State of the Sector UK reports and regional DNO reports from our publications page.