Devon County Council teamed up with Foot Anstey and Climate Positive to prepare a Community Energy Legal Toolkit to help community energy groups understand good practice in developing community energy projects so that their community’s interests are properly protected.

The toolkit presents four flowcharts, each of which describes the process for developing a different community energy project – wind, hydro, rooftop solar PV and ground mount solar PV – from convening an enthusiastic group through to commissioning the scheme.

At key stages of the process the flowcharts advise which legal agreements should be agreed by various parties. Templates are provided for these agreements, accessed through hyperlinks in the flowcharts.

The flowcharts below are available

• Community Energy Legal Toolkit – Hydro Power
• Community Energy Legal Toolkit – Roof Mounted Solar PV
• Community Energy Legal Toolkit – Ground Mounted Solar PV
• Community Energy Legal Toolkit – Wind Power