UK should ‘mobilise army of volunteers’ to transform energy landscape

Reading Hydro is a community benefit society set up to design, finance, build and operate a hydropower scheme to generate renewable, low-carbon electricity. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock

The UK should “mobilise an army of volunteers” to transform the country’s energy landscape and reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by setting up community energy groups, say campaigners.

With energy prices rising, local schemes such as solar panels, locally-funded wind farms and even hydroelectric dams could be crucial to helping generate energy.