Funded Energy Redress Projects

The project will investigate plans to install rooftop solar on seven blocks of social housing flats in Wandsworth, and aims to get cheaper energy into people’s homes as a direct financial and environmental benefit.  They will explore how to achieve this in one of a few ways, using solar sharing software and hardware from Energy Local, Emergent Solar (Solar4Flats), Allume (SolShare).

The project will take a holistic approach, with the solar panels as just part of the overall plan to help people in these blocks and the surrounding area to save money, be part of the energy transition and have an opportunity to invest in their community. Learnings from the project will be shared with neighbouring councils to replicate this across London.

This project will support vulnerable households in East Lindsey, Boston, and South Holland, delivering accessible energy advice to address rising energy costs and fuel poverty. Building on experience from previous projects, they will implement a combination of mobile outreach through ERIC (Energy and Retrofit Information Clinic), home visits, and telephone support ensuring all residents, regardless of location or access to technology, can receive tailored assistance. Through this multi-channel approach, the project will address digital exclusion, meet residents in their communities, and offer engagement options that suit each household's unique needs. 
 
ERIC, an existing electric-powered mobile clinic, allows energy advisors to set up pop-up advice sessions in rural locations, overcoming logistical barriers for residents who lack transport or nearby community hubs. ERIC is equipped to showcase renewable technologies and insulation options, helping residents better understand potential energy-saving measures and energy literacy. 
 
Alongside ERIC, trained energy advisors will conduct home visits for households requiring more in-depth, personalised advice on issues like tariff switching, energy-saving habits, and grant eligibility. Tailored telephone support and energy efficiency and financial guidance will also be provided for residents who are unable to engage face-to-face.  
 
The projects holistic approach is designed to address immediate energy needs and build long-term resilience, empowering households to manage energy costs and make informed choices about their home’s energy efficiency. 

The project aims to support vulnerable energy consumers, within one of Scotland’s most deprived areas, to tackle the on-going impact of surging energy bills, reduce fuel poverty and help to manage energy debt. The project will raise awareness of energy efficiencies and empower vulnerable individuals, helping to reduce the impact of poverty. 

They will deliver 1:1 energy advice to clients and will refer clients to their in-house specialists in debt, housing and immigration. Energy is not a standalone issue and for most of their clients, it’s one of many issues they are facing therefore their in-house referral process ensures clients receive holistic support and advice, where necessary.

The project will also provide home visits, supporting those must vulnerable in the community. They aim to educate the community and support with living measures including distributing 1,200 lightbulbs and providing 300 households with draught proofing measures to improve energy efficiency.

Their strong network of partners will enable them to reach ethnic minority communities, people in or approaching deep poverty, and hospital discharge patients, as examples.

The project will provide energy advice to vulnerable households in the Middlesbrough area. The advice will aim to give people a better understanding of energy related matters, as well as supporting them to take action to alleviate the impact of energy issues on their financial and general wellbeing. 

Advice will be delivered through a number of channels including face to face, telephone and email. Topics of advice will include dealing with energy debt; accessing fuel vouchers; finding the cheapest energy providers; reading & understanding smart meters; accessing grants; and joining the Priority Service Register.

They will utilise an established referral process to reach vulnerable households in need of energy advice and support.

This project will deliver a portfolio of 2 MWp of investment-ready community-owned rooftop solar sites across the organisation's family of co-operatives, focusing on four boroughs with established community groups or growing co-operatives in Southwark, Hammersmith & Fulham, Newham, and Barnet.

The project will assess the technical and financial viability of a pipeline of sites that have already been identified for community-owned solar, whilst building social infrastructure and viability through the organisation's award-winning programme of inclusive community engagement.

By developing approximately 500 kWp of rooftop solar capacity that is ready for investment across each of the four boroughs listed above, this project will establish the foundations for the long-term sustainability of inclusive community energy co-operatives in each of these boroughs, enabling them to develop into more holistic community energy service providers led by and for local people. This project will benefit local communities through financial returns, training and development for those underrepresented in the sector, energy efficiency support, and community fund distribution.  

This project will appraise and develop the best option for the communities of the Cowal Peninsula to develop their own community wind farm opportunities in order to address social need and tackle previous opportunity imbalance. Community ownership will create a significant sustainable income from their own natural resources, which will be used fairly and inclusively to tackle fuel poverty. 

New opportunities for community ownership are known and this project will enable the organisation to progress them; Cruach Mhor, a 30MW windfarm, is likely to repower in the coming years, opening up the opportunity to negotiate a novel shared ownership repowering deal – and/or it may be that a new, wholly-owned/community-consortium arrangement would have greatest benefit. This stage of the project will map out and appraise the routes and wider feasibility of the different options.

The project aims to deliver energy focused advice and support to 2,000 vulnerable households across Bradford, including those in or at risk of fuel poverty.

They will assist households with sorting out billing issues, helping clients deal with fuel debts, apply for capital energy saving programmes, alongside proving advice on energy efficiency, switching tariffs and smart meters.

The project will also focus on developing external stakeholder relationships with Landlords and the Local Authority Housing Standards Department, to help them meet their legal obligations and provide direct referral paths into the service, offering holistic support to vulnerable clients.  

They will also work together with partners in the community, to promote the service and provide practical support such as applications for grants for insulation. 

This project will build on a previous project to support another 3,000 vulnerable households to keep warm and healthy, while reducing fuel costs and carbon emissions. 

The project includes in-depth home energy advice visits, plus advice by phone or online and at events. Alongside the installation of low-cost energy saving measures, such as low energy light bulbs, draught-excluders and radiator reflectors. In the second year of the project, they will also be distributing small energy-saving appliances including heated throws, dehumidifiers and air-fryers/ microwaves via the Crisis Fund, continuing their current offer funded via the government’s Household Support Fund.

They will grow and train their network of Energy Champions to promote the service and generate referrals, and will work closely with their extensive network of volunteer community groups to engage local people around home energy, retrofit and renewables. Whilst also developing their strategic referral partnerships with organisations across Cumbria who support vulnerable people, thus providing access to a fuller range of services for beneficiaries.

The aim of the project is to support community energy in England to grow and scale effectively. It will ensure that more vulnerable and future energy consumers are able to lead and benefit from locally-based initiatives that help communities to better understand own, manage, generate and save energy in their area. 

They'll do this by prototyping a support model for novice community energy actors, helping them to understand their options, build their capabilities and access feasibility funding though a dedicate project specific 1:1 support service, sign-posting to existing resources and group learning activities. 

The project responds to the unpresented scale of ambition set-out in the government’s local power plan. Helping to ensure there is a pipeline of well thought-through projects ready for feasibility funding, that precious volunteer time is optimised, and that experienced community support actors are able to improve and scale their services. 

This project aims to bring forward local energy for local people, where the benefits are felt by all in the community but specifically the most vulnerable. The project will work closely with communities where energy generation potential has been identified and will accelerate at least 3 of 5 sites from stage 1 to 4 (investment and build ready). All developments will be at least 50% community owned, and income from energy generation will be targeted on those most vulnerable in the community.     

Community capacity will be harnessed and developed, enabling greater community ownership, empowering them to have influence over energy generation and share in the economic benefits from it. They'll provide training and mentoring to give people the confidence and skills they need to engage in meetings and action groups and manage projects and events.

The project will scope for a selection of potential sites, taking forward the most viable sites, leaving a pipeline of potential projects communities could take forward after the project ends.