The Future of Community Energy in London - CEL conference 2024

Location: Assembly Hall, Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, London E8 1EA. Access via Reading Lane entrance.

Registration and a light lunch will commence from 1pm.

Join Community Energy London’s (CEL) Annual Conference 2024 which is being held in partnership with the London Borough of Hackney and will:

• Examine how greater collaboration between councils and community groups can help accelerate the deployment of local renewable and energy efficiency projects,

• Explore best practice examples of how and where such collaboration is taking place

• Identify routes on how to scale up municipal and community energy partnerships

• Help ensure that the full benefits of such partnerships can flow directly back into local communities to cut bills, and create a more decentralised energy system, with more local generation and ownership, to create a more resilient energy system

• Determine the most effective policies Government could introduce to help support the delivery of local energy action

• Achieve CEL’s Vision for Community Energy in London, increasing the number of projects by four-fold to 1,000 projects across the capital by 2030.

The Future of Community Energy will feature policymakers, practitioners and users to set out an agenda for future collaboration between councils and community energy groups.

The new Labour Government has set out in its Local Power Plan that one of its three initial priorities for GB Energy will be to Scale up municipal and community energy where GB Energy will partner with energy companies, local authorities and cooperatives to develop 8GWs small-scale and medium-scale community energy projects. Labour has also pledged to allocate resources to support local power in partnership with communities, where GB Energy will make available up to £600m in funding for local authorities and up to £400m low-interest loans each year for communities.

CEL is holding this event in partnership with Hackney Council who have undertaken significant work over the past two years to support community energy action across the borough. For more information on Hackney's Community Energy Fund click here. Hackney Council are holding a Networking Event and light lunch before our conference from 11-2pm. You can register for their event here.

AGENDA

• 1pm - 2pm - Light Lunch and Registration
• 2pm - 3pm - Councils + Community Energy Collaboration
  • Chair: Syed Ahmed, Chair, Community Energy London (CEL)
    
  • Speakers:
    • Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, Mayor of LB Newham
      
    • Councillor Mete Coban MBE, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport, Hackney Council
    • Dr Austin Entonu MBE, Head of Energy, Greater London Authority (GLA)
    • Josh Barnes, Policy & Advocacy Officer, Community Energy England
  • Q&A
• 3pm - 4.15pm 
  
  • Chair: Syed Ahmed, CEL
    
  • Speaker: Eliza Stuart, Co-Chair, London Councils Community Energy Workstream, Newham Council

• • Community Energy Neighbourhoods - Roundtable session
  • Introduction & Facilitator Dave Powis, Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL)
  • Sara Edmonds, National Retrofit Hub (NRH) - national and systemic context of retrofit
    • Workshop (30 mins)
  • Facilitators’ Feedback Plenary
• 4.15pm - 4.30pm BREAK
• 4:30pm - 4.40pm  Mayor of Hackney, Caroline Woodley and Hackney Community Energy Fund short film
• 4.30pm - 5.30pm Engaging Londoners on community energy
  • Chair: Nadia Smith, En10ergy
  • Speakers:
    • Eva Goudouneix, Community Engagement Programme Manager, Repowering London
    • Tom Campbell, Stokey Energy
    • Toby Costin, CREW
  • Q&A
• 5.30pm Close

If you have accessibility requirements or any questions please email katherine@communityenergy.london 

Please note the entrance to the Assembly Hall is via the Reading Lane entrance.