What is State of the Sector?
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.
State of the Sector 2025
The data collection window for the 2025 State of the Sector research is now closed - a huge thank you to all the community energy organisations who submitted their data and helped spread the word about the importance of this research. Your contributions are vital to building a strong and accurate picture of the sector. The portal remains open, though, allowing community energy organisations to add any new or altered sites of activity as they become active.
Outputs from the research will be published in the summer after Community Energy Fortnight.
Providing data
Our portal allows community energy organisations to provide data.
Click here to access the portal and find instructions of how to register, if your organisation has not used the portal before. Once you're registered, you can add new users from your organisation.
Previous outputs from State of the Sector
Scrolling infographic telling the story of community energy in 2024
Our 2024 scrolling infographic tells the story of what community energy is, what the sector does and the impacts and benefits it delivers. Keep scrolling and the document shares details about the sector’s progress, potential and challenges, and explains ways of supporting the sector to develop and grow. A wide range of new statistics from the research were used to illustrate the scale and breadth of the sector.
UK sector overview 2024
Our 2024 UK sector overview 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.
We encourage you to share the outputs from 2024 with your members and investors and with your MPs, local authority contacts and other local stakeholders. We have provided the main overview infographic as a standalone file you can use for PowerPoint presentations.
The national community energy map
State of the Sector data all feeds into our National Community Energy Map, which is a great way to demonstrate the size and scale of our sector across the country.
Thank you to our members and other providers of data for your ongoing support. State of the Sector is generously sponsored by SP Energy Networks - this support is vital for enabling us to conduct the research.
Previous reports and regional DNO reports
You can download previous State of the Sector UK reports and regional DNO reports from our publications page.