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<p>Last year the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, which supports the Industrial
Strategy, announced a Local Energy Programme, which supports local actors, community
groups, local authorities and combined authorities to develop their own energy strategies
and deliver their own energy programmes. Community energy is a key part of clean growth,
showing what can happen when groups of people come together to de-carbonise energy
in local areas, whilst also investing in these places to bring other economic, or
social, benefits. Even small-scale projects can provide a valuable contribution to
cutting greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework expects
local planning authorities to recognise the responsibility on all communities to contribute
to energy generation from renewable or low carbon sources. New tests were introduced
into planning in 2015 to give local people the final say on onshore wind planning
applications in England, which delivered on a manifesto commitment made by the previous
Government. Planning for onshore wind turbines in the UK is devolved outside of England.</p>
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