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“When you say “reliable”, you mean the Government will not change that at a later stage?”

“Yes. Sorry, a slightly different tack—we were just talking about how we got this into this session. We have been talking about locational pricing, a more macro issue that is currently under review. Every morning when I listened to “London Playbook” from “Politico”, the advert was, “Locational pricing will stall clean e…”

“I should say for the record it is an advert from SSE, rather than “Politico” saying that.”

“Does anybody else want to comment on that?”

“Just one more from me then. In our evidence, we received proposals for a hub-and-spoke model to facilitate knowledge exchange. You have all talked about sharing information and mapping as a critical thing here. Is there a risk, though, that a hub-and-spoke model could duplicate the existing work of mayoral authorities,…”

“Louise, I cut you off only because it was a specific question I had down, just so that we capture it in order. Do you have some thoughts on the specific support needed to help people in more deprived parts of the country to participate in community energy, please.”

“Jake, just quickly, we have heard about financial support and professionalising, but is there anything else practical that needs to happen?”

“Yes. I will come back to deprived areas, just to cut you off there for time. Zoë, if you could focus on professionalising, is there anything more we could do to professionalise the sector?”

“I have a very short period now so we will try to keep ourselves to time. The final question that we are going to focus on is on capacity building within the community energy sector. That is a very broad term, I know, but just help me on that as we go. I am interested to understand from your perspectives what practical …”

“I should say for the record it is an advert from SSE, rather than “Politico” saying that.”

“Yes. Sorry, a slightly different tack—we were just talking about how we got this into this session. We have been talking about locational pricing, a more macro issue that is currently under review. Every morning when I listened to “London Playbook” from “Politico”, the advert was, “Locational pricing will stall clean e…”

“I am going to ask, more generally, whether there are any other Government incentives or mechanisms that are in consultation that would help to bring forward more community energy schemes. To add to that, is there any learning we should do from outside the UK on incentives or mechanisms that have helped to drive communi…”

“Does anybody else want to comment on that?”

“Just one more from me then. In our evidence, we received proposals for a hub-and-spoke model to facilitate knowledge exchange. You have all talked about sharing information and mapping as a critical thing here. Is there a risk, though, that a hub-and-spoke model could duplicate the existing work of mayoral authorities,…”

“Louise, I cut you off only because it was a specific question I had down, just so that we capture it in order. Do you have some thoughts on the specific support needed to help people in more deprived parts of the country to participate in community energy, please.”

“Jake, just quickly, we have heard about financial support and professionalising, but is there anything else practical that needs to happen?”

“Yes. I will come back to deprived areas, just to cut you off there for time. Zoë, if you could focus on professionalising, is there anything more we could do to professionalise the sector?”

“I have a very short period now so we will try to keep ourselves to time. The final question that we are going to focus on is on capacity building within the community energy sector. That is a very broad term, I know, but just help me on that as we go. I am interested to understand from your perspectives what practical …”

“Just for my clarity, because I do not know how the data is captured, if you are a customer service team working for a clean energy provider, does that count as a green job? Is that how Government are defining green jobs? Does a green job become something where you are an engineer or a technical person doing something? …”

“It is interesting to hear you picking up on town gas. I recognise that we need to learn from that. From reading the evidence we have had so far, we have a real challenge of a smaller ageing workforce who are leaving the profession and a much bigger challenge, potentially, of bringing new people into industry. Can you t…”