Ask your MSP to stand up for community energy

Ask your MSPs to stand up for community energy

FREE TO USE PICS. 26/2/2021. Pics of the roof of Edinburgh City Council's offices, Waverley Court being fitted with Solar panels, as part of Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative's share issue. Pic shows a workman fitting the panels.

At the Co-operative Party, we know that ownership matters. And that's why we back community-owned energy, where local people own and control renewables like solar panels and wind farms that power their communities.

We're calling for a massive investment in community energy to deliver transformative change to the energy system, by building renewable energy capacity and putting communities in control.

Will you write to your MSPs now and ask them to back our campaign for #CommunityEnergyNow?

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We've created this template to help you write to both your Constituency MSP and Regional MSPs about this issue. You can simply add your name and email then hit send, but we encourage you to edit the template message and let your MSPs know why this issue matters to you!

Address*
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MSP Name*
First name Last name
Constituency MP Email*
Region MSPs Names*
Region MSPs Emails*
Dear ,
Your message*
I am writing to you to ask for your commitment in supporting the expansion of local community energy projects in Scotland. As a co-operator I believe that there is a huge opportunity for local elected representatives to work with and promote community energy organisations to tackle the crisis’ that we face today, for examples the increasing cost of living and the environmental challenges that climate change has presented us with. Supporting the establishment and growth of community energy initiatives can have benefits to our area including local wealth building, creating net zero jobs, community behaviour change and added value to local authority investment. The Co-operative Party’s Community Energy campaign is asking those at all levels of government to do their bit in working to make community energy more accessible by supporting the expansion of schemes. These asks include: - Doubling the funding for the Community & Renewable Energy Scheme - Creating a new ringfenced Scottish National Investment Bank Fund for large-scale community energy projects - Establishing a new Scottish Government energy procurement strategy - Strengthening the status and funding of Co-operative Development Scotland As my MSP, I ask that you support the aims of the campaign and commit to further supporting the growth of community energy in our local area and across the country.
Yours sincerely,
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