Consensus Power creates Local Energy Communities to optimise the use use of low-cost, locally-produced clean power within towns and cities across Great Britain.

ConsensusPower’s mission is to establish a platform using modern technology and new business models to:
- Enable renewable generators, consumers and prosumers to trade directly with each other on a highly cost-efficient basis, using existing infrastructure such as transmission and distribution networks.
- Facilitate efficient funding solutions for clean energy assets, allowing local stakeholders to invest alongside national crowdfunding and institutional funding sources.
- Empower energy service providers to engage with and deliver services to local energy markets in an efficient and scalable manner.
- Provide an effective framework to support local non-profit initiatives aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of all members of society and the natural environment.
On their membership with SWM, they say:
“By connecting clean (e.g. farm-based) generators with large, local consumers (including commercial, industrial and public sector) through a highly-efficient peer-to-peer trading platform. This provides provably clean power with economic advantages for generators, consumers and local communities”.