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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 £213 million to fund nearly 790 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 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
https://www.bristolenergynetwork.org.uk/
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£451,561
Project Name
SIFFFT Turbines for South West England

Community-owned wind turbines can be transformative, both for the environment and for local communities. They generate clean electricity cutting carbon emissions, and the income they produce can be used to reduce fuel poverty, improve energy efficiency in local homes, and support communities directly. 

The project team was central to developing the Lawrence Weston turbine in Bristol; the UK’s largest community-owned onshore wind project. It now supplies enough renewable power for thousands of homes and will generate a six-figure income each year. That funding is being reinvested into local

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Community-owned wind turbines can be transformative, both for the environment and for local communities. They generate clean electricity cutting carbon emissions, and the income they produce can be used to reduce fuel poverty, improve energy efficiency in local homes, and support communities directly. 

The project team was central to developing the Lawrence Weston turbine in Bristol; the UK’s largest community-owned onshore wind project. It now supplies enough renewable power for thousands of homes and will generate a six-figure income each year. That funding is being reinvested into local carbon reduction schemes and enhanced community services.

They now plan to replicate this model across South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. Working with landowners and community energy groups, they have developed a pipeline of eight potential turbine sites, with four de-risked and ready to move forward. Together, these four sites represent over 32.7MW of generation capacity, saving thousands of tonnes of CO₂ annually and delivering millions of pounds of real direct benefit to local people over the coming years. 

Funding will support moving these projects forward through development and planning permission phases. This replicable programme cuts carbon, tackles fuel poverty, and ensures the benefits of net zero are shared fairly across our communities.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
CHAI (Community Help & Advice Initiative)
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£77,738
Project Name
CHAI Energy Advice Service

Through this project, they aim to tackle fuel poverty head-on, reaching those most at risk of poor health, financial hardship, and disconnection. 

Using their established presence, networks and partnerships across Edinburgh, the team will provide tailored one-to-one, telephone, and digital energy advice. Support will include dealing with energy debt and disconnection risk, budgeting, switching tariffs, and resolving disputes with suppliers. 

They’ll also help clients to access crisis and community grants, improve home energy efficiency, and reduce energy use. Where appropriate, people will be

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Through this project, they aim to tackle fuel poverty head-on, reaching those most at risk of poor health, financial hardship, and disconnection. 

Using their established presence, networks and partnerships across Edinburgh, the team will provide tailored one-to-one, telephone, and digital energy advice. Support will include dealing with energy debt and disconnection risk, budgeting, switching tariffs, and resolving disputes with suppliers. 

They’ll also help clients to access crisis and community grants, improve home energy efficiency, and reduce energy use. Where appropriate, people will be connected into the organisation’s wider welfare rights, housing, money advice, and employability services, ensuring holistic support that addresses the root causes of fuel poverty.

The project's person-centred approach will ensure clients feel supported and confident in managing their energy needs, reducing the stress that can lead to worsening hardship, ill health, or homelessness. By helping people stay connected, save money, and create warmer, healthier homes, they will improve wellbeing, strengthen financial resilience, and build a more energy-aware community. 

They will also gather insight into barriers to energy use and access, helping to shape more effective support in the future.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
Places Impact
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£242,410
Project Name
Chorley and Preston Energy Advice Service

The project aims to reduce energy bills, improve health and wellbeing and be a gateway to other specialist services, using established referral pathways to further support customers and provide a holistic service.

Trained energy advisers will deliver a tailored, proactive and flexible energy advice service for residents living in Chorley and Preston. They'll provide personalised and detailed energy advice to 870 unique customers, with over 2,500 interventions throughout the project. 

Support will include advocacy with energy suppliers, setting up a new energy supply, advice on billing/payment

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The project aims to reduce energy bills, improve health and wellbeing and be a gateway to other specialist services, using established referral pathways to further support customers and provide a holistic service.

Trained energy advisers will deliver a tailored, proactive and flexible energy advice service for residents living in Chorley and Preston. They'll provide personalised and detailed energy advice to 870 unique customers, with over 2,500 interventions throughout the project. 

Support will include advocacy with energy suppliers, setting up a new energy supply, advice on billing/payment methods, budgeting for energy spend, home energy efficiency tips, preventing damp and mould, alongside the provision of practical measures.

The project will be delivered through a range of touch points - home visits, appointments at community centres, telephone advice and at community events. Drop-in sessions will also be open to the local community, reaching more people and supporting them to make changes to their energy use. 

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
https://www.dial-greatyarmouth.org.uk/
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£49,500
Project Name
Great Yarmouth Energy Resilience

This project will provide energy advice to 450 low-income households in Great Yarmouth who are most at risk of fuel poverty. An energy advisor will provide in-depth face-to-face, online, and telephone support. 

They will help people develop an energy-saving plan by calculating their energy use and identifying ways to save energy and money. The project will also recruit and support six volunteer energy champions from local communities. Volunteers will leverage their social networks to contact community groups, advising their members on saving energy and raising awareness of energy improvement

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This project will provide energy advice to 450 low-income households in Great Yarmouth who are most at risk of fuel poverty. An energy advisor will provide in-depth face-to-face, online, and telephone support. 

They will help people develop an energy-saving plan by calculating their energy use and identifying ways to save energy and money. The project will also recruit and support six volunteer energy champions from local communities. Volunteers will leverage their social networks to contact community groups, advising their members on saving energy and raising awareness of energy improvement schemes.

The team will work closely with the local integrated care system to support residents who are experiencing or recovering from a health problem. They will also offer energy advice to people accessing their existing money and debt services and do outreach at food and clothing banks.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
https://bhesco.co.uk/
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£196,014
Project Name
Solar Powered Communities

This project will establish an investment-ready pipeline of three community-scale solar power and battery storage installations in some of Sussex’s poorest neighbourhoods. Building on the success of the Solar Powered Communities project in Brighton (50kW of residential solar power installed) they will engage low-income and hard-to-reach households with the benefits of solar PV and battery storage. They will undertake a scoping exercise to identify areas of high-deprivation and fuel poverty, where heating is mostly electric and solar potential is strong.

The team will work with local community

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This project will establish an investment-ready pipeline of three community-scale solar power and battery storage installations in some of Sussex’s poorest neighbourhoods. Building on the success of the Solar Powered Communities project in Brighton (50kW of residential solar power installed) they will engage low-income and hard-to-reach households with the benefits of solar PV and battery storage. They will undertake a scoping exercise to identify areas of high-deprivation and fuel poverty, where heating is mostly electric and solar potential is strong.

The team will work with local community groups to develop bespoke community engagement plans. Focus groups will liaise between BHESCo’s project development team and residents. The team will host community events, establishing highly competent doorstep communications teams, and developing easy to understand, visually dynamic information assets. The goal is to encourage households to commit to their community programme of solar and battery storage in a microgrids model for no upfront cost. 

They will produce the technical design and financial analysis for each property wishing to participate in the community solar programme, providing details on solar PV and battery storage capacity, anticipated system cost, and a cost and carbon emissions savings schedule.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
Citizens Advice North Lancashire
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£853,715
Project Name
Energy Matters Phase Two

The project aims to assist vulnerable residents in Lancaster and Preston Districts with advice and support when confronted with energy problems, to help them stay warm and safe in their homes. They will work in partnership with Preston Citizens Advice, and Green Rose CIC. 

Households will be referred into the service from community partners, internally within the organisations, and via outreach programmes. 

They will provide crisis support to residents seeking urgent help with energy problems; engaging vulnerable residents with energy issues, and delivering energy advice and support, including

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The project aims to assist vulnerable residents in Lancaster and Preston Districts with advice and support when confronted with energy problems, to help them stay warm and safe in their homes. They will work in partnership with Preston Citizens Advice, and Green Rose CIC. 

Households will be referred into the service from community partners, internally within the organisations, and via outreach programmes. 

They will provide crisis support to residents seeking urgent help with energy problems; engaging vulnerable residents with energy issues, and delivering energy advice and support, including the installation of energy saving devices. 

Creating long term solutions by supporting residents with energy debt problems, engaging with energy providers, and making referrals to retrofit grants and other support.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
Point and Sandwick Trust
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£192,674
Project Name
Warmth Without Worry

The project aims to positively impact the wellbeing of households suffering from fuel rationing. By providing financial, physical and behavioural support, tailored to individual properties and circumstances.

They will assess the home for actual energy use vs modelled use, and provide energy support crisis grants tailored to the level of household need. With the provision of such financial assistance they aim to reduce fuel worry.

The team will also advise on heating use, ventilation, dehumidification and how to best manage these to avoid the harmful effects of mould. Where necessary they will

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The project aims to positively impact the wellbeing of households suffering from fuel rationing. By providing financial, physical and behavioural support, tailored to individual properties and circumstances.

They will assess the home for actual energy use vs modelled use, and provide energy support crisis grants tailored to the level of household need. With the provision of such financial assistance they aim to reduce fuel worry.

The team will also advise on heating use, ventilation, dehumidification and how to best manage these to avoid the harmful effects of mould. Where necessary they will also signpost to external agencies for additional advice (e.g. money advice, tariff advice, utility company dispute advice). 

The project will also provide physical interventions to tackle the effects, on building fabric, of fuel rationing (e.g. dehumidifiers, improved ventilation). 

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
East Durham Trust
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£48,502
Project Name
East Durham Connected

This project will deliver targeted, face-to-face energy advice and support for households in vulnerable situations in East Durham. Led by East Durham Connected alongside Energising East Durham and key community hubs. 

Beneficiaries will be households at higher risk of harm from fuel poverty, disconnection, and cold homes due to multiple challenges, including substance misuse, complex mental health, and generational poverty.

The project will support private rental sector tenants with high utility debts, many in ex-colliery housing which is often poorly maintained, inefficient, and subject to

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This project will deliver targeted, face-to-face energy advice and support for households in vulnerable situations in East Durham. Led by East Durham Connected alongside Energising East Durham and key community hubs. 

Beneficiaries will be households at higher risk of harm from fuel poverty, disconnection, and cold homes due to multiple challenges, including substance misuse, complex mental health, and generational poverty.

The project will support private rental sector tenants with high utility debts, many in ex-colliery housing which is often poorly maintained, inefficient, and subject to rapid changes in ownership, with little accountability or investment.  

The funding will support specialist staff capacity to work intensively with 120 households with the most complex cases. Alongside this, 24 community-based sessions will widen access to advice, strengthen community links, and create lasting peer networks.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
Bristol Energy Cooperative
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£220,369
Project Name
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity Solar

The project is a community-owned renewable energy installation planned for the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC)’s airbase in Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire. 

The installation will consist of a ground-mounted solar installation expected to generate 5,616 MWh per year – enough to power over 1,500 homes. The project is being carefully designed to balance functionality with environmental sensitivity and visual screening, in keeping with the surrounding landscape, and will aim to significantly improve biodiversity at the site. As well as generating clean energy, the project will aim

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The project is a community-owned renewable energy installation planned for the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC)’s airbase in Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire. 

The installation will consist of a ground-mounted solar installation expected to generate 5,616 MWh per year – enough to power over 1,500 homes. The project is being carefully designed to balance functionality with environmental sensitivity and visual screening, in keeping with the surrounding landscape, and will aim to significantly improve biodiversity at the site. As well as generating clean energy, the project will aim to generate clear benefits for the local community. 

It is being developed by Bristol Energy Cooperative, a local and well-established community energy group which provides community benefits to Bristol and the surrounding area, in partnership with GWAAC. 

The project will be 100% community-owned and protected by an asset lock. Revenues will provide a modest return to member shareholders, many of whom live locally, and will provide community benefit funding which will be distributed in the form of grants and practical support in the local area. In this case, part of the revenues of the project will be channelled to support GWAAC’s life-saving emergency medical services in the region. 

Most of the power from the project will be exported to the grid. The possibility of a local supply club, whereby people living close to the project could buy the power generated and benefit from lower bills, will also be considered, subject to local interest and a more conducive regulatory environment.

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Phase 2
  • Round 13
Round 13
Charity
Citizens Advice Wokingham
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£139,396
Project Name
EnergyWise Wokingham

The project aims to support 1,040 vulnerable households in Wokingham with energy advice, and deliver 520 in-depth home visits and in-person appointments.

A mobile advice unit will provide advice to residents in rural areas. Whilst partnerships with local food banks and community groups, as well as integration with existing council support services, will ensure seamless referral pathways into the project.

Advice will include comprehensive home energy assessments, Priority Services Register enrolment for vulnerable customers, energy efficiency guidance and grant application support. Outcomes will

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The project aims to support 1,040 vulnerable households in Wokingham with energy advice, and deliver 520 in-depth home visits and in-person appointments.

A mobile advice unit will provide advice to residents in rural areas. Whilst partnerships with local food banks and community groups, as well as integration with existing council support services, will ensure seamless referral pathways into the project.

Advice will include comprehensive home energy assessments, Priority Services Register enrolment for vulnerable customers, energy efficiency guidance and grant application support. Outcomes will include sustained energy cost reductions, improved health outcomes for residents, and enhanced energy market engagement.

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