Update on BEIS Local Energy Programme

[ALEO Admin]

As part of the Local Energy Programme, announced in the Government's Clean Growth Strategy, BEIS has provided £4.8 million for the establishment of five Local Energy Hubs, which will each be hosted by a lead local authority as below:

• North West (Lead Authority - Liverpool City Region LEP/Combined Authority)
• Yorkshire, Humber and North East (Lead Authority - Tees Valley Combined Authority)
• South East (Lead Authority - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority)
• Midlands (Lead Authority - Nottingham City Council)
• South West (Lead Authority – West of England Combined Authority)

Each Hub will have a small team of energy project managers led by a regional coordinator, with access to technical, legal and financial expertise, and will work with LEPs and local authorities across its given region.

BEIS has allocated a further £138,000 funding to enable each Hub to lead a national project, which together will produce good practice, information and resources that will be made available for use by LEPs, local authorities and other relevant organisations across the country.