The energy transition will be different in Tobermory and Tenby, Belfast and Bolton. Working with local authorities, we are helping translate the needs of local people and places into strategies to support their decarbonisation journey.
We work directly with local authorities to create decarbonisation plans that account for the unique needs of their people, economies and geographies. We believe this is critical to bring people along on the journey to net zero.
We use our voice to ensure that national policy and regulation works with local authorities, rather than imposing on them. By convening local leaders from across the UK, we co-create policy positions that champion local needs at a national level.
We support local authorities to develop the skills and knowledge they need to plan for new local renewable energy, deliver warm homes, accelerate EV uptake and decarbonise local transport systems.
Action at the local level is the cheapest and most effective way to deliver net zero. With more than 300 local authorities declaring a climate emergency, collaboration is vital to enabling this and delivering a transition that works for the needs of local people.
The percentage of emissions that are within local authorities’ scope of influence
The amount of money that could be saved by adopting place-based approaches to net zero
The target set in the GB Energy Founding Statement for local and community-owned energy by 2030
Through our policy focus we have engaged with several energy system reforms and responded to government consultations on key developing policy areas. Our critical areas of interest focus on local authorities’ role in the energy transition, energy planning and spatial planning, as well as system reforms like Regional Energy Strategic Plans and local energy markets.
As part of our work on Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living programme, we are supporting 52 local authorities across the UK understand and find solutions to net zero policy challenges. We are running five policy groups that explore policies across key thematic areas:
1) Local energy and infrastructure
2) Retrofit
3) Heat networks
4) Community energy
5) Transport
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Regen produces dashboards for our local authority members to provide an annual snapshot in time of progress to net zero. The net zero dashboards take public data about emissions across a local authority area and visualise it in a digestible way.
The dashboards are an ever-evolving process, with our analysts always exploring new data that we could add into them, and new ways of visualising the data to support local authority needs.
If you're interested in finding out more about local authority membership, contact Regen's head of local energy, Poppy Maltby.
Contact PoppyOur members help us to be a strong, informed and independent force for change. Together we're transforming the UK's energy system for a zero-carbon future, driving change in policy and regulation to remove the key barriers facing the transition.
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