Funded Energy Redress Projects

The project aims to provide targeted energy advice and support to vulnerable groups, specifically people over 65 and individuals living with long-term health conditions or disabilities in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

They will deliver personalised, one-to-one energy advice through home visits, telephone support, and workshops at community events, reaching individuals who may not otherwise seek support. 

Workshops will cover topics like understanding energy bills, promotion of Priority Service Registers, energy safety, introducing low-carbon technologies, and understanding government schemes. 

One-to-one advice will include managing energy debt, switching suppliers, and accessing financial support such as grants, energy efficiency measures, and benefit entitlements. 

The project will directly support 1,500 unique households per year, helping households reduce their energy costs, improve energy efficiency, and access critical grants and benefits. Through surveys and feedback, they will assess the impact on satisfaction, health, and wellbeing. 

By building long-term resilience, they aim to equip residents with the knowledge and resources needed to manage future energy challenges independently, including the integration of low-carbon technologies. By working with trusted local partners, they will refer clients to additional services and ensure they receive the full support they need. 

Ultimately, the project will empower vulnerable individuals, ensuring they can safely manage their energy needs and reduce fuel poverty.

This project will install 1 MWp of community owned solar PV assets across London by providing partial capital funding to investment ready sites across a consortium of 5 community energy groups, with delivery support from Repowering London (RL) and bridge financing from Repowering Finance (RF). 

The consortium, led by North Kensington Community Energy (NKCE), includes local co-operatives in Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Newham, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Barnet. 

The project will generate low-carbon electricity across these boroughs while creating opportunities for inclusion and empowerment for consumers who may not otherwise benefit from community energy. The solar PV installations enabled by this project will ultimately generate financial returns, training and development opportunities for those underrepresented in the sector, energy efficiency support initiatives, and community funds for local distribution, both during the grant cycle and across the long-term project cycles. 

The consortium will draw on delivery partner Repowering London’s extensive work to identify technically feasibly sites that are ready for install, with partial capital funding to ensure viability. Community stakeholders linked to these sites, working collaboratively with their local community energy co-op, will be empowered to take local action to reduce carbon emissions. The consortium’s model for community ownership focuses on engaging those traditionally excluded from the benefits of the renewables revolution, which is key to a just transition.

The project will provide vulnerable energy consumers with intensive energy support in an accessible and equitable way across the region.

They will collaborate with other community energy providers to simplify the advice offer for residents and form new referral pathways. 

Working alongside caseworkers, their experienced communications team will campaign for systemic improvements in the way billing issues are communicated to customers. Their work will culminate in an Energy Justice conference for Devon’s policy makers, driving long-term sustainable change that will focus on the wider determinants of fuel poverty and enable households to move towards living warmer, happier and healthier lives.

This is an ambitious infrastructure project to deliver an innovative 5G ambient temperature heat network to decarbonise over 2,000 homes, two schools, and many local small businesses in the South West Hertfordshire village of Kings Langley. It will stand as an example and blueprint for other low temperature heat networks across the country to speed up their implementation and normalise this as a form of renewable heating. 

The project will build on the completed Stage 2 CEF Study, contracted by Hydrock (now Stantec) and Vital Energi. The report delivered a technical and economic feasibility study using the prolific chalk aquifer as a heat source for an ambient temperature heat network and confirmed the viability of the project. 

The project will support the ambient temperature heat network to move through permissions, procurements, securing a site, and financial close, including infrastructure deployment, borehole drilling, and financial model to investment, soft market launch and community engagement. 

Implemented at scale, the ambient temperature heat network aims to eliminate the need for gas heating in the most cost effective manner, reducing bills for residents and local major users, reducing carbon emissions, enhancing energy security, and providing affordable heating to the community.

The project aims to establish in-person energy efficiency advice services for self-funding homeowners across Nottinghamshire and address the barriers to retrofit of hard-to treat properties. 

The advice service will provide support for consumers for each stage of their retrofit journey, from an initial enquiry about how to improve the energy efficiency of their homes through to the point where installation of retrofit measures takes place. Alongside helping consumers to find grant funding and subsidies where available. 

The project will deliver in-person tools to enhance consumer knowledge and confidence, including retrofit surveys, workshops and events, to help homeowners transition to net zero.

Retrofit surveys will include the following range of tailored personalised reports:

• Future Fit Home Energy Plan
• Clean Heat and Power Plan
• Thermal imaging report (e.g, to check the effectiveness of older cavity wall installations) 

The project will focus on off-gas grid homes, properties in a conservation area, and homes with an EPC rating of D-G. Engagement will be with householders that can afford to invest, incentivising and enabling a greater volume of people to contribute to net zero.

They will provide expert energy advice and support to assist vulnerable consumers in making informed decisions and improving their energy situations. The project targets consumers in Swindon, living in areas of higher fuel poverty and/or within the 20% most deprived areas in the UK. 

With a focus on prevention, they will deliver an energy education programme aimed at schools and young people leaving care, to provide them with skills for independent living and fostering good habits in energy saving and budgeting. 

They will collaborate with Swindon Tenants Academy to offer energy advice appointments at the beginning of all new housing tenancies. Delivery will include in-depth Energy Advice appointments, conducted face-to-face, via telephone, or through home visits. 

The Energy Mentor will carry out home energy assessments to identify challenges, current energy-saving measures, and financial circumstances to provide tailored advice. Support will also include liaising with energy suppliers and providing access to energy debt advice. 

Energy Mentors will deliver community presentations and 'pop-up' events targeting consumers and frontline workers. Offering training sessions to voluntary and public sector partners, focusing on energy issues for clients affected by fuel poverty, new housing tenants, and care leavers. 

They will also run social media campaigns to raise awareness and encourage early intervention.

Through these initiatives, the project aims to promote sustainable energy practices, alleviate fuel poverty, and empower individuals with the knowledge and skills to manage their energy use effectively.

The project will build on the successful delivery of a previously funded project; they are currently on target to reach over 1,000 households to date and have worked alongside other Caritas services to reduce the effects of fuel poverty. 

The project will continue to provide energy advice to people who are speakers of other languages, the deaf community, people with mobility and disabilities, and refugees. Advice will be provided through interpreted workshops, calls and information sessions.

The project also aims to educate those moving from institutions or accommodations (such as hospital, prison or care) and people from other countries, about energy use, bills and supply in the UK, to pre-empt energy issues they may face.

The project aims to address the need for support from Fife households that are struggling to heat their homes affordably. The project will focus on those who are most vulnerable to the impacts of fuel poverty, especially people for whom English is not their first language, those with low literacy and numeracy skills, and those who are digitally excluded. 

Utilising learning gained from previous projects, they have developed a community engagement approach that ensures effective reach and maximises participant benefit. They will work closely with local groups, organisations and support agencies, train new referral partners, recruit a team of local energy champion volunteers to act as trusted local connectors for the service, and work in targeted neighbourhoods to deliver support where it is most needed. 

They will also develop marketing materials and online resources to engage with 10,000 people, raising awareness of energy issues and how they can help. 

The project will work in-depth with 700 vulnerable households, providing advice on energy efficiency, financial support and supplier switching, plus referrals to other sources of well-being support, from income maximisation to befriending services. A ‘handy’ service, fitting warm curtains, draught-proofing and other simple energy-saving measures, will increase the energy efficiency of households, and those at risk of under-heating will receive ‘cosy’ packs to increase their immediate thermal comfort.

The project will provide learning disabled adults with accessible education and training to empower them to make informed choices, reduce their energy usage and assist them with difficulties around energy providers.

Through workshops and one-to-one support, participants will gain practical skills to reduce energy costs and improve financial resilience. 

Energy Champions will design and lead workshops covering energy use and energy saving measures, understanding your bill, and how to change energy provider. Individual adviser support will enable people to: 

• understand their own billing and energy packages
• change provider if needed
• apply workshop learning to their home environment
• identify energy saving measures to take and provide support to learn to put these things into practice 

Energy Champions will be learning disabled people who complete training, design accessible workshops, offer peer support, and run workshops delivering information to their peers.