REA covers renewable power & flexibility, heat and cooling, circular bioresources and transport.

[8] All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Energy Storage, for which the REA was the secretariat between its founding in July 2015 and its last registration in November 2019.

[15] REA supported the environmental audit committee in calling for the government to cut VAT on repairs fort electrical goods and green home improvements.

[22][23] REA, through its subsidiary, launched the UK's first Electric Vehicle Consumer Code (EVCC) in 2020, a voluntary scheme for domestic charge point installers.

[28] In 2014 REA was criticised for encouraging reliance on large non renewable energy company members including the operators of Drax power station and Eggborough power station and lobbying to expand the use of food crops as biofuels including palm oil and soya.