Funded Energy Redress Projects

The project is a community-owned renewable energy installation in South Gloucestershire, close to Bristol. The installation will consist of a 1MW wind turbine, a 2MW ground-mounted solar array and a battery rated at 1MW/3MWh, connected behind a single grid connection via an innovative DC-coupled system to manage export volumes. 

This model has been developed to maximise clean energy generation, carbon emission reductions and community benefit, within the highly constrained local grid capacity. 

The project is expected to generate 4,447MWh per year, enough clean power to supply around 1,400 households. Over the projects lifetime this is expected to save approximately 5,900 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Power will be exported to the grid under purchase agreements with energy suppliers or other offtakers.

The project will be community-owned and protected by an asset lock. Revenues will be used to provide community benefit funding which will be distributed in the form of grants and practical support in the local area.

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.

This project will enable the completion of Severn Wye Energy Agency’s existing Round 8 Innovation project which looks to demonstrate the viability of generating carbon-negative electricity and supplying it to Bromford Housing – their partner social housing provider - at below market rates, tackling both climate change and fuel poverty.

Pyrolysis allows carbon in organic feedstocks (such as woody biomass, sewage sludge or arboreal risings) to be sequestered, thereby resulting in carbon negative heat. This project will be a first-of-a-kind system in the UK and will demonstrate how waste heat energy can be converted to electricity and supplied to fuel poor households in a cost-effective manner. 

The Round 12 funding will cover the additional capital costs associated with the innovative FeTu Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology identified during the feasibility process completed with the original Redress Innovation funding. 

This project offers benefits that positively impact both people and the environment by supporting the UK's transition toward carbon negative energy sources and reducing energy costs for fuel poor households.

The project aims to deliver a pioneering community solar initiative in one of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods — Thesiger Street and surrounding areas of East Marsh, North East Lincolnshire — with some of the highest levels of fuel poverty and social deprivation nationally. 

They will develop a plan to install solar PV on approximately 100 homes—mainly terraced houses and flats—most of which are owned by local housing associations, with some private landlords and owner-occupiers. The electricity generated will be provided free of charge to residents, supporting households in vulnerable situations to reduce energy costs and improve comfort during a period of growing energy insecurity.

In addition to the physical solar installations, the project will empower residents to make long-term energy-saving behavioural changes. This development project will span two years and include detailed site identification, community and landlord engagement, feasibility studies, planning and permissions, and preparation for a capital funding bid. By the end of this project, they aim to be investment-ready for the installation phase (year three) and replicate this model across other deprived areas of North East Lincolnshire.