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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 2
Round 1
Charity
Citizens Advice Mid Lincolnshire
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£48,650
Project Name
The Energy Saver Project

The Energy Saver Project aims to reduce participants' household bills, whilst maximising their income.  This will be achieved by providing consumers with support ranging from light touch information to full, tailored and ongoing casework. Clients will be assisted via multi channels including video platform, telephone, email and face to face, thereby providing a seamless and flexible service that is accessible to all. The target group are consumers who are considered to be vulnerable. This includes those on a low income and/or are vulnerable such as those spending >10% of net monthly income on

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The Energy Saver Project aims to reduce participants' household bills, whilst maximising their income.  This will be achieved by providing consumers with support ranging from light touch information to full, tailored and ongoing casework. Clients will be assisted via multi channels including video platform, telephone, email and face to face, thereby providing a seamless and flexible service that is accessible to all. The target group are consumers who are considered to be vulnerable. This includes those on a low income and/or are vulnerable such as those spending >10% of net monthly income on utilities, those on low incomes those in receipt of DLA/PIP, JSA, ESA or UC, those with a disability/long term sickness, those of pensionable age, those with dependent children.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Groundwork West Midlands
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£273,492
Project Name
Green Doctor

The North Staffordshire Green Doctor programme will add capacity to existing energy/welfare advice provision in an area made worse by the cost of living and energy price rises. Green Doctors, qualified energy advisors, will target 1600 households with more complex energy needs such as long-term ill-health or disability, and who find it difficult to engage with online/telephone-based advice services due to poor mental health and caring responsibilities. To ensure broad reach, Green Doctors will deliver targeted social marketing, events in fuel poor neighbourhoods to raise awareness of the

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The North Staffordshire Green Doctor programme will add capacity to existing energy/welfare advice provision in an area made worse by the cost of living and energy price rises. Green Doctors, qualified energy advisors, will target 1600 households with more complex energy needs such as long-term ill-health or disability, and who find it difficult to engage with online/telephone-based advice services due to poor mental health and caring responsibilities. To ensure broad reach, Green Doctors will deliver targeted social marketing, events in fuel poor neighbourhoods to raise awareness of the service. Alongside wider providers, they will develop strategies to improve co-ordination/targeting of resources, ensuring the most vulnerable can access the level of help they need.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Purbeck Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£404,044
Project Name
Energy for Life

The Energy for life project will help vulnerable consumers through the Citizens Advice Dorset Energy Unit, by providing in depth advice and casework to 1,540 vulnerable households from a team of Energy Caseworkers. This aims to build financial resilience among vulnerable consumers and increase the likelihood of households being able to meet their heating requirements to stay warm and safe and avoid cold-related health problems.  This will be delivered through home visits and telephone advice appointments, in addition to internal referrals within the Citizens Advice service for further support

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The Energy for life project will help vulnerable consumers through the Citizens Advice Dorset Energy Unit, by providing in depth advice and casework to 1,540 vulnerable households from a team of Energy Caseworkers. This aims to build financial resilience among vulnerable consumers and increase the likelihood of households being able to meet their heating requirements to stay warm and safe and avoid cold-related health problems.  This will be delivered through home visits and telephone advice appointments, in addition to internal referrals within the Citizens Advice service for further support (Household Support Fund, welfare benefit applications & appeals, debt advice and solutions, water company assist schemes).

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
The National House Project
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£191,364
Project Name
Care leavers as Energy Champions - NHP

The Care leavers as Energy Champions project will with Local Authorities (LA) to establish Local House Projects (HPs) across the UK to prepare and support young people leaving care to ‘live connected and fulfilling lives’. This energy project aims to inform, educate and raise awareness of energy efficiencies by providing intensive support with lasting solutions so that this vulnerable group can avoid fuel poverty and sustain their tenancies. They will work with young people to develop resources that work for them, and with young people as researchers and energy champions the project is geared

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The Care leavers as Energy Champions project will with Local Authorities (LA) to establish Local House Projects (HPs) across the UK to prepare and support young people leaving care to ‘live connected and fulfilling lives’. This energy project aims to inform, educate and raise awareness of energy efficiencies by providing intensive support with lasting solutions so that this vulnerable group can avoid fuel poverty and sustain their tenancies. They will work with young people to develop resources that work for them, and with young people as researchers and energy champions the project is geared to developing a young person led approach. Young people will be supported to develop energy aware behaviours as they move to independent living and staff and young people will be trained as energy champions to support young people who already face considerable challenges as young tenants which has been further exacerbated by the energy fuel crisis and the cost of living crisis.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Dumfries High Street Ltd (T/A Midsteeple Quarter)
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£253,101
Project Name
Midsteeple Quarter Hybrid Heating Network

The Midsteeple Quarter Hybrid Heating Network aims to install an innovative aquifer-fed water source heating system in Phase I of the Midsteeple Quarter development, based on a shallow open-loop borehole system, and to test and develop this for wider implementation in neighbouring Midsteeple Quarter buildings and other town centre properties. The organisation has already assessed the potential for using ground source heating and establishing a wider district heating network and plan to use Phase I as proof of this concept by drilling two boreholes, connecting up the building and installing an

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The Midsteeple Quarter Hybrid Heating Network aims to install an innovative aquifer-fed water source heating system in Phase I of the Midsteeple Quarter development, based on a shallow open-loop borehole system, and to test and develop this for wider implementation in neighbouring Midsteeple Quarter buildings and other town centre properties. The organisation has already assessed the potential for using ground source heating and establishing a wider district heating network and plan to use Phase I as proof of this concept by drilling two boreholes, connecting up the building and installing an aquifer-fed (or innovative hybrid) heat pump system to provide this building and neighbouring properties with low cost, locally-generated, low carbon heating. This work will confirm the feasibility of the system, commission the well and trial the installation in a mixed-use commercial and residential building. The exploratory well will be used as part of the final commissioned system if successful.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Age UK Scarborough & District
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£249,994
Project Name
Energy YourWay

The Energy YourWays project will deliver intensive energy advice to vulnerable older people living in Scarborough and Ryedale in, or at risk of, fuel poverty. Energy Advice workers will be deployed to target and reach those in the greatest need, working closely with local authorities, the voluntary sector, the health sector, housing providers and statutory services. Eighty workers and volunteers from will be trained to increase awareness of the impact of fuel poverty on older people. The project will also raise awareness amongst partner organisations and provide a community “Warm Room” –

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The Energy YourWays project will deliver intensive energy advice to vulnerable older people living in Scarborough and Ryedale in, or at risk of, fuel poverty. Energy Advice workers will be deployed to target and reach those in the greatest need, working closely with local authorities, the voluntary sector, the health sector, housing providers and statutory services. Eighty workers and volunteers from will be trained to increase awareness of the impact of fuel poverty on older people. The project will also raise awareness amongst partner organisations and provide a community “Warm Room” – utilising community facilities as a place for people to come during the daytime to reduce their energy costs at home and remain warm.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Citizens Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£238,520
Project Name
Warm & Well in North Yorkshire

The Warm & Well in North Yorkshire project will increase capacity and do as much preventative work as possible while reaching out to those who have complex needs. This includes; budgeting/debt advice for those struggling to pay fuel bills, energy advice on measures and grants, mental health support so that debt advice and preventative solutions work.

Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Housing Association Charitable Trust
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£150,952
Project Name
RetrofitCredits

RetrofitCredits is a new service that will unlock investment in social housing retrofit by verifying the emission reductions and social value of housing retrofit projects and originating carbon credits backed by those emission reductions. It will centre the impact of these retrofit activities on residents and communities through the incorporation of social value metrics, so that the funding unlocked through carbon credits doesn’t just reduce carbon, but also improves lives.

The pilot aims to test this methodology on up to 3,500 housing association homes undergoing retrofit. In doing so, this

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RetrofitCredits is a new service that will unlock investment in social housing retrofit by verifying the emission reductions and social value of housing retrofit projects and originating carbon credits backed by those emission reductions. It will centre the impact of these retrofit activities on residents and communities through the incorporation of social value metrics, so that the funding unlocked through carbon credits doesn’t just reduce carbon, but also improves lives.

The pilot aims to test this methodology on up to 3,500 housing association homes undergoing retrofit. In doing so, this project will facilitate significant capital flows from businesses making carbon neutral or net-zero commitments to housing providers, reducing the overall cost of funding retrofit activities.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
Re:work Ltd
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£36,769
Project Name
Keeping Warm this Winter

The Keeping Warm this Winter project will use their knowledge, contacts and experience to put together a program of DIY training and home energy advice, that will be taken to where it is most needed within the city to alleviate fuel poverty. It will give people needed the skills and confidence to make changes to their homes and behaviour that would enable them to maximise the impact of the energy they used, and that more community workers needed to have a current and practical understanding of how to help families and individuals in crisis. This project will also provide a number of home

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The Keeping Warm this Winter project will use their knowledge, contacts and experience to put together a program of DIY training and home energy advice, that will be taken to where it is most needed within the city to alleviate fuel poverty. It will give people needed the skills and confidence to make changes to their homes and behaviour that would enable them to maximise the impact of the energy they used, and that more community workers needed to have a current and practical understanding of how to help families and individuals in crisis. This project will also provide a number of home visits, including a home thermal heat loss study, in order to provide draught proofing for those unable to undertake the energy saving measures themselves.

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Phase 2
Round 1
Charity
The Welcoming Association
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£47,279
Project Name
The Welcoming Home Energy Efficiency Project

The Welcoming Home Energy Efficiency Project aims to tackle and prevent fuel poverty and associated risks by supporting New Scots (refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) in Edinburgh to learn about the local energy and billing system, implementing home energy efficiency measures and behaviours to reduce their energy consumption. Through home energy visits and one-to-one energy advice, project participants will be able to control their energy consumption, access financial support, improve their home energy efficiency, and apply for fuel debt assistance when required. This intervention will

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The Welcoming Home Energy Efficiency Project aims to tackle and prevent fuel poverty and associated risks by supporting New Scots (refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) in Edinburgh to learn about the local energy and billing system, implementing home energy efficiency measures and behaviours to reduce their energy consumption. Through home energy visits and one-to-one energy advice, project participants will be able to control their energy consumption, access financial support, improve their home energy efficiency, and apply for fuel debt assistance when required. This intervention will benefit all New Scots living in Edinburgh, as well as support local agencies and service providers to reach the most excluded and marginalised members of the community, such as newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers.

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