Local Electricity Bill

Key Points

• Enables electricity generators (including community energy schemes) to become local electricity suppliers and sell power to customers in their local area.
• Creates a regulatory framework to define what a local electricity supplier is and how local supply operates, including related consumer protections and metering.
• Supports local energy projects and decarbonisation by keeping generation and supply local to the community.
• Includes provisions for connected purposes, covering related regulatory and practical matters needed to run local supply.

Progress

The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons, the early stage of its journey. If it progresses, it would move on to committee scrutiny, then report, third reading, and finally consideration by the Lords.