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Introducing Our Licence Exempt Supply Offer
We’re delighted to introduce Community Power Club!
Younity’s licence exempt supply offer, which flexes with your organisation, without sacrificing the financial benefit available to you.
About the project
The Community Power Club
The Community Power Club was built with community generation projects in mind. It enables community generators, like you, to invite households, community organisations and businesses to join your club and match their consumption with your project’s generation. This offers a direct link between your community projects and energy users, which means they can share in the benefit of your licence exempt supply (LES).
Clubs can be set up with optional eligibility requirements, such as specific location criteria, to customise where this benefit is channelled. We’ll also enable you to have multiple sites in each club, as well as, in the future, join up with other community generators to share a club.
If your Community Power Club has more generation than your invited members can match, or you don’t have the capacity to create a club and invite members yourself, we can ensure matching is optimised with Octopus Energy Business customers. This means we can maximise the value you receive through LES regardless of how you set up your club or the resources available to you to recruit club members.
Enabling community generators like you to design clubs in this way was important to us; we want our Community Power Clubs to enable you to pass on even more benefits to your communities, without impacting your ability to receive the maximum financial benefit from LES.
Each Community Power Club will have its own bespoke online dashboard, enabling club members to view how much of their consumption has been matched with the club’s generation, and encourage them to maximise their matching in order to access savings.
How will the Community Power Club work?
Each Community Power Club's generation and consumption will be assessed on a half-hourly basis to calculate the matched volume - the LES. This LES volume will not be levied, and a share of the savings from this will be passed on to you as an additional payment on top of your export Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Younity.
Similarly, club members will receive a discount on their electricity bill according to how much of their consumption was matched with the generator(s) in their club. The size of these discounts and payments is determined by the rate of the associated levies in that half-hour, which vary.
To participate in a Community Power Club, you will need to have an active PPA with Younity. For domestic consumers to join the club, they will need to be on the Community Power Tariff, the only electricity tariff on the market that is 100% powered by community-generated electricity. This tariff is a Your Co-op Energy tariff, powered by Octopus Energy, and is made possible by our portfolio of PPAs
We understand that some domestic households won’t be suitable for this tariff if they have installed low-carbon technologies, which means they are on special tariffs. So, we will have a number of Octopus Energy flex tariffs that will be eligible as exceptions.
Any businesses or community buildings, such as a school, wishing to participate will need to be on an Octopus Energy Business supply tariff.
What is the eligibility criteria?
How do I sign up?
Community Power Club is a win for both energy bills and the grid, and we’re excited to announce that it will be launching this Spring.
If you’d be interested in becoming a licence-exempt supplier with us, you’ll soon have the option to add this to your Younity PPA. You can discuss this and the options available to you in setting up your Community Power Club by getting in touch with them at together@younity.coop.