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Funded Energy Redress Projects

Since the Energy Redress Scheme launched Phase One of the scheme in 2018, Energy Saving Trust has awarded over £150 million to fund nearly 660 projects across England, Scotland and Wales. These grants have enabled organisations to deliver projects that help energy consumers in vulnerable situations to save energy and money in their homes and to live warmer, more comfortable lives. Phase Two of the scheme launched in May 2022.

To find out more about the projects we have funded, see the full list, which can be filtered.

You can also find specific case studies of some of the funded projects here.

Full list of projects

This is a complete list of successfully funded Energy Redress Scheme projects since 2018.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Stockton and District Advice & Information Service
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£367,437
Project Name
Warm Up North

The project aims to provide energy advice to vulnerable consumers by bringing together Citizens Advice Bureau with health and social care services charities, to deliver targeted support to vulnerable people in the areas of the North East with high levels of fuel poverty.

The project will use the knowledge of services and agencies working with people with health conditions, including Local Authorities and Health Services and The Stroke Association, to effectively target and then deliver energy advice to households where a person has a long term health condition or a disability. 

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Age Concern Tyneside South
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£49,568
Project Name
Age Concern Tyneside South

Two Information and Advice staff will be trained to Level 3 City and Guilds in Energy Awareness, so that they can offer high quality energy advice to 300 vulnerable older people aged over 60 in South Tyneside.

The project will improve take up of energy saving measures, ensure residents are in the best position to pay for their energy costs and will use their Handy Service to implement small measures within older people's homes.

 

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Citizens Advice Fylde
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£48,632
Project Name
Fylde Energy

Fylde Energy will help some of the most vulnerable people in their locality to improve their energy health in the short and longer term. 

Open days will be used to raise awareness of energy issues and the support on offer, followed by a series of Energy Health Clinics offering one-to-one appointments to help people address their immediate energy issues. The clinics will be run at their offices in Kirkham, at outreach locations including GP surgeries and through home visits.  

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Live Inclusive
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£111,130
Project Name
Recharge

Live Inclusive is a Charity supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. This project will see the charity recruit two energy advisers to support 620 clients with disabilities/long term health conditions living in Doncaster and Rotherham. The advisers will provide home visits and workshop sessions aimed at the target audience. They will also attend community events and develop energy knowledge amongst their volunteers.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
the Environment Centre
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£173,184
Project Name
Switched on Portmouth

“Switched on Portsmouth” will reach out and support vulnerable and disadvantaged communities at risk of fuel poverty. It will complement and extend the reach of existing activities, through a single point of contact for affordable warmth advice and support in the city.

Winter warmth campaigns will raise awareness amongst the public and front line services about how to keep warm and well and home visits will be offered to vulnerable households requiring in depth hand-holding support with energy issues.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£191,000
Project Name
ABLE (Assisting B&NES on Local Energy

The project will support disabled (including older/frail) people in Bath & North East Somerset. It will fund a team of fuel poverty advisors to deliver support to the target audience, will train local volunteers, including those who are disabled to provide advice and work with local frontline health, social care agencies, charities, council and Housing Association (Curo), to identify people needing the support.Those living in heritage homes (common in Bath) will receive tailored conservation-specific advice and partners will be trained to understand fuel poverty and refer to the project.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Lancashire Women
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£329,772
Project Name
Energy Advice for Lancashire Women

Eight of Lancashire Women’s staff members will be trained to provide energy advice to their existing client base, most of whom are in vulnerable situations. This energy advice would be integrated into one-to-one sessions delivered through their money advice service and also delivered through standalone sessions on energy advice as well as delivered through workshops and events focused on energy advice plus integrated into wider projects and support delivered across the Lancashire Women service

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
National Energy Action (NEA)
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£138,809
Project Name
Increasing self-consumption of solar PV

The project will deliver support and advice to over 7000 low income and vulnerable households with PV (Solar Photovoltaic) technology on their homes to maximise use of the solar energy and reduce energy bills.

Working with social housing providers the project will identify properties in three locations in England, develop and disseminate easy to understand information, provide intensive support where needed, and provide small measures to support with optimising benefits of the system.

Information leaflets will be complemented by a suite of videos and web-based resources. Complementary

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The project will deliver support and advice to over 7000 low income and vulnerable households with PV (Solar Photovoltaic) technology on their homes to maximise use of the solar energy and reduce energy bills.

Working with social housing providers the project will identify properties in three locations in England, develop and disseminate easy to understand information, provide intensive support where needed, and provide small measures to support with optimising benefits of the system.

Information leaflets will be complemented by a suite of videos and web-based resources. Complementary bespoke training on PV and battery storage will be offered to front line workers operating in the target areas.

Households receiving information can seek further support via telephone, advice clinics or home visits. NEA will conduct an independent evaluation of the PV system performance and small measures provided to appropriate households. The project will establish the usefulness of these technologies in maximising PV energy use and reducing energy bills.

In addition, NEA will identify any misbehaving PV systems, assessing the impact of this failure on bills, and investigate barriers to repairs, reporting and discussing this with the relevant system owners. The long-term performance of systems will be assessed and downtime due to faults investigated. The impact of ownership models (social landlord or ‘rent a roof’ / existing servicing agreement) will be considered.

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Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Citizens Advice Calderdale
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£69,471
Project Name
Keeping Calderdale Cosy

The ‘Keeping Calderdale Cosy’ project will visit 200+ vulnerable clients at home to support them with a wide variety of home energy issues and income maximisation work and will deliver a preventative programme of information sessions to at least 500 people over two years. The project will also provide training for at least 100 front line workers, including their own advisers and volunteers.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Marches Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£36,713
Project Name
Telford Energy Advice (TEA)

An energy advice project to be delivered in the Telford & Wrekin area that aims to reach 10% of fuel poor homes through freephone, face-2-face advice, events, mobile exhibition and frontline staff training. Small measures will also be available to those who have home visits.

The plan is to support 770 households through drop-in sessions, home visits and a Freephone advice-line. They will also attend 20 community events and take an exhibition van to high-footfall events to support 200 people. Briefings provided to ten organisations, to reach 150 frontline staff, targeting health and social

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An energy advice project to be delivered in the Telford & Wrekin area that aims to reach 10% of fuel poor homes through freephone, face-2-face advice, events, mobile exhibition and frontline staff training. Small measures will also be available to those who have home visits.

The plan is to support 770 households through drop-in sessions, home visits and a Freephone advice-line. They will also attend 20 community events and take an exhibition van to high-footfall events to support 200 people. Briefings provided to ten organisations, to reach 150 frontline staff, targeting health and social care.

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