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
Heat networks regulation: Implementing consumer protections
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ofgem
Deadline: 11:59pm Tuesday 31 January 2025
Contact: heatnetworks@energysecurity.gov.uk & heatnetworksregulation@ofgem.gov.uk (Please respond to both DESNZ and Ofgem)
Consultation documents are here. The third and final joint DESNZ and Ofgem consultation on consumer protections for heat network consumers. The two previous consultations in 2020 and 2023 informed the provisions in the Energy Act 2023 and the Heat Networks Market Framework Regulations Statutory Instrument.
Respond here.
You can also register for a series of webinars for more information, see https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/heat-networks-regulation-consultation-webinars
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Heat networks regulation: authorisation and regulatory oversight
Ofgem
Deadline: 11:59pm Tuesday 31 January 2025
Contact: heatnetworksregulation@ofgem.gov.uk
Consultation on proposed new rules for the authorisation and regulatory oversight of heat networks in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). The background document is here.
Respond here.
You can also register for a series of webinars for more information, see https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/heat-networks-regulation-consultation-webinars
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Forward Work Programme 2025/26
Ofgem
Deadline: 10 February 2025
Ofgem has set out proposals for its work programme for the next year. This involves integrating the government's target of decarbonising the grid by 2030 into its activities. Amongst other proposals, Ofgem set out plans to reform the connections queue to the grid to prioritise projects that are ready to go and needed for the 2030 clean power target and to introduce new incentives for demand side flexibility.
There are no set questions for this consultation and in previous years responses have taken the form of a short letter to Ofgem outlining a few reflections on the proposals.