Shared Ownership

Shared ownership is becoming a key route for communities to gain a meaningful stake in the UK’s clean-energy transition. In 2025 we have helped to bridge the gap between commercial developers and local groups, ensuring communities are prepared to participate, protected within investment structures, and able to benefitfrom long-term revenue. 

In 2025, we supported shared ownership opportunities across nine solar sites in England – around 350MW of capacity – offering local communities the potential to acquire up to a 10% share. Our work spans three developer partnerships at different stages: With Thrive Renewables, a joint venture is progressing on the energised 10MW Little Dunmow solar farm in Essex, where a new Community Benefit Society (Peacock Energy) has been formed to manage the community stake. With Quintas Cleantech, we are supporting six 49.9MW sites in Hampshire, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Kent and Cambridgeshire as they move through planning, designing CBS structures that can hold the minority stake and manage associated community benefit funds. Early-stage work with Luminous Energy is exploring similar models for proposed sites in Surrey and Norfolk. 

Across all projects, our focus is on creating robust joint ventures with strong minority protections, preparing communities for every stage – from early engagement and public consultation to investment structuring, CBS governance and share raises. 

To help scale the model nationally, we are also collaborating with Energy Systems Catapult and Bird & Bird to develop accessible legal templates for shared ownership, co-designed with communities and developers to unlock more opportunities for local benefit.