Express your interest

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Throughout the first half of 2026, we’re running an Expression of Interest (EOI) process as part of our early market engagement. 

Through this form, you have the option to subscribe to our mailing list and consent to your details being shared with the Local Net Zero Hub for your region.

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What you can use this form for

Local and community energy organisations and developers can use this form to:

  • submit contact information to keep in touch with upcoming GBE Local updates
  • submit specific project proposals for initial, non‑binding consideration The Expression of Interest (EOI) form is an information-gathering exercise to help Great British Energy understand the local and community energy projects currently being developed across the UK. It is not a funding application, there is no competitive process, and submitting an EOI does not guarantee funding.

GBE may use the information internally and may share it with government. In some cases, GBE may choose to follow up with organisations to explore projects further, but this will be at GBE’s discretion and subject to future business case development. 

Completing the EOI is optional and does not replace other routes for engaging with GBE.
 

After you submit

If you request to keep in touch with upcoming GBE Local updates, we’ll add your details to our database to keep you informed of future initiatives. 

While our team is still scaling up, we may not be able to respond immediately.
 

Important information

Submission of an EOI does not represent a commitment by GBE to provide funding or finance, nor is it a formal application.

No funding or support is being committed at this EOI stage. Any future consideration of funding will be subject to formal due diligence, subsidy control compliance, and separate agreement. This EOI is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute an award.

Further, this EOI is not a tender or an offer of contract, and it creates no binding obligations on GBE. GBE may alter or cancel the EOI process at any time without liability. Participating or not participating in this EOI will not advantage or disadvantage any party in any future procurement.
 

Confidentiality and intellectual property

GBE is a public body and therefore subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), as well as being required to disclose certain information to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the National Audit Office and HM Treasury. If any content is commercially sensitive, please mark it as such. While confidentiality cannot be guaranteed, we recognise that some of the information you provide may be commercially sensitive and GBE will seek to ensure commercially sensitive information is kept confidential so far as that is consistent with the public interest in disclosure, including consideration of any relevant exemption under FOIA and EIR, regarding commercially sensitive and confidential information. Any intellectual property in your submission remains yours but you grant us permission to use it. 

Part 1: General information

Do you want to subscribe to the GBE Local mailing list?

Read the privacy notice at www.gbe.gov.uk/privacy-notice 

Nature of your interest in local or community renewable energy projects

As per the disclaimer to this EOI form, please indicate if you consider any of the information you provide in Parts 2 or 3 to be commercially sensitive.

Part 2: Enquiry interest

What are you interested in? (Select all that apply)

Part 3: Specific project or opportunity

Use this section to tell us about a specific project, site, or development opportunity. If you are noting general interest only, skip this section.

Purpose of this part of the form

This section of the form may serve as a first initial method to request that GBE make an investment in a project. GBE may, at its own discretion, follow up with some organisations to explore projects in more detail. Any such engagement would be exploratory only. Any future investment discussions would be subject to further due diligence, development of a business case, and appropriate approvals. 

 

About the project

What technology types will you use?
kW
kWh
kW
years

Land status

Do you have a Heads of Terms or Option to Lease for the site?

Location

Planning, consents and grid connection

What is the planning / consenting route?

Further detail on grid connection, consents and planning

Example: Grid connection offered to X substation (distribution) for 2029; planning approved subject to X survey.

Existing Support

From GBE, local authorities, combined authorities, Net Zero Hubs, DESNZ or others.
£

Community ownership and local benefit

How will local people be involved in and benefit from the project? Select all that apply.
%
How will the project involve and benefit those in low income or disadvantaged situations within your community? Select all that apply.

Route to market

What is your route to market? Select all that apply - current or intended.

Barriers to deployment

What are the main barriers to deployment? Select all that apply.

Support required from GBE

£
£
£
If non‑commercial, what is the estimated funding gap to reach a 5% return on investment?

Timelines

Attachments

Additional information

Add relevant context, links or constraints.

Data sharing

If your project is in England, we would like to know if you are happy for GBE to share your survey response with the relevant Local Net Zero Hub for your region (the Hub), in accordance with the Privacy Notice, so that the Hub can analyse this information to support local authority, social housing, wider public sector, and community energy activity within its region; and the Hub can contact you regarding regional initiatives.

Generally, please note that GBE will handle any personal data provided in this form in accordance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The information is being collected to evaluate your EOI (under an appropriate lawful basis), and will be used only for this purpose. Please do not include any sensitive personal data (e.g. information about health, ethnicity, or political opinions) in your answers.

After you submit

A member of the Great British Energy local team will review the information you submit. 

As our team is still scaling up and we cannot commit to invest or support every project directly, we may not be able to respond directly to every submission. However, we will add your details to our database and aim to keep you informed about relevant products and services as they are developed.

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