Funded Energy Redress Projects

They aim to support vulnerable households across rural East Riding and urban Hull. East Riding is a large rural area with over 152,000 households, high unemployment (24%), limited public transport, and mostly seasonal or low-paid work. Hull, by contrast, is a densely populated city of 115,500 households, with 27% unemployment and significant deprivation. Both areas rank among the most deprived in the UK. 

The project will address fuel poverty, energy debt, and barriers to advice through a mix of in-person outreach, home visits, and tailored workshops and telephone advice. 

As a trusted advice organisation in the area, they will deliver:

• Personalised energy advice, including energy efficiency and low-carbon technology.
• Support with energy debt and income maximisation.
• Run energy-themed workshops, including digital tools and literacy.
• Host drop-ins in community settings (GPs, libraries, food banks).
• Train partners and volunteers to provide peer support.
• Refer clients to wider advice services (e.g. debt, welfare, housing).

The project aims to improve the health and well-being of Greater Manchester residents living with health conditions by alleviating fuel poverty and creating healthier home environments. 

This project will help individuals and their families where a member has a pre-existing health condition, such as respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, or dementia, which is often worsened by a cold or damp home. Residents will be reached through trusted referral pathways, including their established Macmillan support services, dementia carer teams, and new partnerships with GPs and community health organisations.

They will deliver a dedicated and intensive energy casework service, providing holistic, one-to-one support. This includes in-depth advice on energy efficiency and debt, income maximisation, and hands-on assistance to access grants for essential heating and insulation measures. They will also provide training to health professionals and implement an innovative SMS referral platform to create a more integrated and responsive support system for those most in need. 

Ultimately, the project aims to deliver tangible benefits to vulnerable consumers by providing warmer, healthier, and more affordable homes.

The project is a collaborative service between the Wise Group and Inspire, Motivate, Overcome (IMO), combining their experience and expertise in energy focused mentoring. They aim to expand community and household energy support coverage, across Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Preston. Together, they will assertively influence future decision making that leads to energy affordability and household’s ability to heat and be warm in their home. 

Through comprehensive energy mentoring, they will empower households disadvantaged by language, social and digital barriers to better manage their home energy journey. From fuel insecurity to energy stability, to understanding the benefits of emerging technologies to heat and insulate their homes. This will create a strong introduction to further their engagement and understanding of the energy transition, so they are not at risk of being left behind.

This project will be a first-of-its-kind, community-owned Virtual Power Plant (VPP) that will help homes, schools, and small businesses on the Isle of Wight lower their energy bills, reduce carbon emissions, and support the wider electricity grid. Led by Green Isle of Wight in partnership with the Centre for Energy Equality, the project will install between 0.5 and 1 megawatt of battery storage across 100–200 buildings. These smart batteries will store electricity when it’s cheaper or cleaner and release it when needed most — saving money for users and reducing pressure on the national grid during peak times. 

VIBE combines local ownership, smart digital coordination, and a fair, inclusive delivery model. An enhanced version of the Fairer Warmth digital platform (already used by 1,000+ islanders) will connect all batteries into a single, intelligent network. 

This Virtual Power Plant can trade electricity on national markets and provide flexibility services to grid operators — earning income that benefits the community. 

Many participants will receive batteries for free or at a reduced cost, depending on ability to pay. The project will also launch a community share offer, giving local people the chance to co-own the system and share in the financial returns. VIBE aims to improve energy security, reduce emissions, and keep value within the community — creating a scalable model for cleaner, fairer energy systems across the UK.

Grand Avenues and Hafan are two complementary, community-based initiatives working together to reduce fuel poverty, promote energy efficiency, and improve health outcomes for vulnerable households in Cardiff.

Grand Avenues supports individuals in temporary accommodation or unstable housing through trusted local relationships. Many of these individuals face digital exclusion, language barriers, and significant energy insecurity. The project provides tailored energy advice, fuel voucher support, and help accessing emergency grants—delivered through face-to-face outreach and local community partnerships. They aim to build confidence, trust, and awareness of energy rights in some of the most underserved communities. 

Hafan works upstream, embedding energy advice directly within the healthcare system. Operating through YourSpace social prescribing in Cardiff West and expanding to North and West Primary Care Clusters, Hafan supports patients whose health is negatively impacted by cold homes. Energy Advisors will provide bespoke advice, home assessments, and access to grants and low-carbon technologies—reducing hospital admissions and improving long-term well-being. 

Together, these projects create a seamless pathway of support for those most at risk—from immediate crisis intervention to longer-term energy efficiency improvements.

Their fully trained, experienced coaching team will provide bespoke energy saving advice through home visits to those most in need. 

Support will include showing residents how to take meter readings, understand their energy bills, and exploring ways of reducing their bills. They will also look around the home to identify energy-inefficient lightbulbs and check for draughts. The team will fit new energy saving measures at no cost to residents, helping to reduce energy usage and keep homes warm, for less.

Their coaches will help households to understand what they could save by changing behaviours whilst using appliances, alongside demonstrating how to effectively use their heating system. Return visits and remote support will be delivered to check in on progress.

They will also identify additional needs during their home visits, allowing for referrals to other service providers such as grants and debt support, to improve residents health and wellbeing.

Older Londoners face higher living costs than the national average, with poverty rates among older people in London rising from 19% to 24% over the past decade (Age UK London, 2022). The project will support residents struggling with rising energy costs by providing high-quality energy advice and holistic support with partners to improve financial resilience, enabling households to meet energy bill demands.

Two Energy Advisers will offer one-to-one casework to help clients reduce consumption, improve energy efficiency, resolve disputes, access hardship funds, and secure affordable tariffs. A part-time Energy Events Coordinator will plan and deliver outreach events to raise awareness and engage communities. Delivered in food banks, community centres, and GP practices, the project aims to reach the most vulnerable and those who are seldom heard.

Over the next two years, they aim to support 2,400 people, distribute 600 energy-saving packs, and deliver individual advice, helping clients save an estimated £270,000 in total energy costs.

This project aims to accelerate the transition to net zero by achieving measurable and lasting reductions in the carbon intensity of domestic energy (particularly heating), building capacity to develop low carbon heating projects, and unlocking development of low carbon renewables in constrained areas. 

A key barrier to low carbon heat networks and community energy schemes is viability - often potential sites for renewable energy lack sufficient load, or are faced with grid constraints, and low carbon heat networks cannot provide affordable heat to end users because electricity is 3x price of gas - which makes the final cost of energy higher for households.  Small data centres can solve both these challenges by providing a baseload for local renewables and supplying low cost waste heat to local homes and community buildings. 

The project will support residents and community energy groups to revisit plans for low carbon ambient heat networks and renewable energy generation. They aim to model the inclusion of modular data centres (size of a shipping container) ranging from 80 to 500kW, and carry out feasibility studies to develop a set of template designs reflecting the constraints. The project will open a pipeline of sites for investment and contribute to the decarbonisation of heating in 20 communities, saving 300 tCO2e per year.

This project aims to generate robust evidence on the effectiveness of behaviour change and/or small energy efficiency measures in reducing energy consumption and costs and improving quality of life for vulnerable households. 

They will identify eligible households who have a smart meter and can provide a year of monthly energy data. The number of participants will be selected to maximise the probability of obtaining statistically significant results. 

These households will receive an initial home visit, delivered via one of the organisation's existing projects, to provide energy-saving advice and install small energy efficiency measures. Households opting into the project will receive an additional visit to install equipment to monitor indoor temperature and humidity, and configure their smart meter for daily or half-hourly data collection. 

Five follow-up visits will take place over the following 12 months to collect data, provide tailored advice, and encourage further savings. Changes in energy consumption will be compared to a matched control group of households, while qualitative data will be gathered through surveys and structured interviews during home visits. 

An academic partner will support gathering and analysing quantitative data on energy use, cost savings, carbon reductions, and qualitative data on energy-related behaviour change, comfort and experience of HEMAS. Where consent is given, household interviews will be video-recorded for use in media to communicate the project's impact. The project will share their methodology and learnings to contribute to best practice in designing, monitoring and evaluating fuel poverty interventions.

This project is a partnership between Groundwork’s Green Doctors, Citizens Advice Allerdale and Copeland, Cumbria CVS, and Cumberland Council. 

The project will support vulnerable households in Cumberland’s most deprived communities, particularly those facing or at risk of fuel poverty and living in energy-inefficient homes (EPC D or below). High fuel poverty levels, older housing stock, and low household incomes create widespread unmet need (Cumberland Council). Many residents fall through the cracks of existing schemes due to digital exclusion, strict eligibility criteria, or lack of awareness.

They will address this gap by offering inclusive, accessible, and tailored support for those otherwise excluded. Over two years, they aim to support 2,400 households through home visits, phone consultations, and community sessions. They will install small-scale measures targeting damp and mould. To ensure lasting impact, they'll also train community-based staff to identify and refer vulnerable residents, building local capacity. This integrated model will boost household resilience, wellbeing, and foster sustainable communities. 

The project will improve health and wellbeing of residents by creating warmer, healthier homes and reducing financial stress, as well as reducing carbon emissions through targeted energy-saving measures.