The data you provide to this portal is crucial to the work of Community Energy England, Community Energy Scotland and Community Energy Wales. Our State of the Sector research published annually is a key output for our organisations, providing an opportunity to:
- highlight the achievements, impact and potential of the community energy sector.
- make a positive case for its role in the Net Zero transition.
- play a crucial role in influencing government policy and other key sector decision makers.
Data you provide using this portal is stored securely and is only directly accessible by verified users attached to your organisation, and staff members from Community Energy England, Community Energy Scotland and Community Energy Wales who are responsible for administering the portal and/or working to deliver the research project.
Data you provide will be collated and used in our annual UK-wide State of the Sector outputs, alongside a separate state of the sector report for Wales funded by the Welsh Government.
Data sharing
We are keen to reduce the need for repeated research engagement and surveying of community energy organisations - in line with feedback we receive from practitioners in the sector - and therefore we may share some detailed, non-personal, data with other carefully vetted organisations and community energy research projects. Any personal data will be stored in accordance with UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 (‘Data Protection Law’) and will never be shared.
Any request for data from external organisations will be considered in line with our internal data sharing process, which requires agreement from all consortium members - Community Energy England, Community Energy Scotland and Community Energy Wales. We will only agree to share data if the requesting researcher/organisation has a clear reason and rationale for the request and is able to explain what they intend to do with the data. This must make sense and be in line with the broader aims, objectives and ethics of the community energy sector. We will only provide data that is relevant and reasonable for the data requester to meet their stated aims.
The personal data that we collect:
- full name
- email address
We will only use your personal details to communicate with you about our State of the Sector research. This might take the form of emails to:
- notify when our annual campaign commences and to ask you to update your data ahead of a specific deadline.
- invite you to attend State of the Sector related events or meetings.
- notify you of the publication of any State of the Sector research outputs.