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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 £102 million to fund nearly 538 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 8
Round 8
Charity
National Energy Foundation
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Milton Keynes
Grant award
£884,774
Project Name
Better Housing Better Health West Midlands

The project will provide high-quality energy advice and fuel poverty support to 8,000 homes living in fuel poverty across the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). They will utilise a multi-intervention, case management approach that maximises effectiveness in providing households with high-quality energy advice, assistance in acquiring funding, and energy-saving measures. Within this project they will also leverage existing partnerships to provide additional support for households.

Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Citizens Advice Cheshire West
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Winsford
Grant award
£274,137
Project Name
Energy for Life

The project will continue to build on successful delivery of a previous project, providing vulnerable residents with tailored in-depth energy advice. The project aims to help residents reduce energy usage and cost through long-term practical and behavioural changes, with follow-up support as needed.

They will expand access channels to advice in various locations. Continue in-person advice through drop-ins, pop-ups, and individual sessions based on built experience from the last two years. Deliver group talks and workshops in the community, and provide referrals to their specialist advice teams

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The project will continue to build on successful delivery of a previous project, providing vulnerable residents with tailored in-depth energy advice. The project aims to help residents reduce energy usage and cost through long-term practical and behavioural changes, with follow-up support as needed.

They will expand access channels to advice in various locations. Continue in-person advice through drop-ins, pop-ups, and individual sessions based on built experience from the last two years. Deliver group talks and workshops in the community, and provide referrals to their specialist advice teams and other relevant services. 

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Energy Projects Plus
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Wallasey
Grant award
£803,326
Project Name
Warm and Well

The project will work with health practitioners, local authorities, and other partners to provide advice and support to vulnerable residents in Merseyside, aimed at reducing the detriment they face trying to keep affordably warm at home. Building on and aligning previous Energy Redress funded projects and recent NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Fuel Poverty Pilots, their qualified, specialist Energy Advisors will provide personalised in-depth advice to residents referred directly from clinical teams and their broader community network and referral partner organisations.

The project aims to provide

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The project will work with health practitioners, local authorities, and other partners to provide advice and support to vulnerable residents in Merseyside, aimed at reducing the detriment they face trying to keep affordably warm at home. Building on and aligning previous Energy Redress funded projects and recent NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Fuel Poverty Pilots, their qualified, specialist Energy Advisors will provide personalised in-depth advice to residents referred directly from clinical teams and their broader community network and referral partner organisations.

The project aims to provide detailed, high-quality telephone and face to face energy advice as well as delivering in-home energy advice sessions, highlighting practical ways to reduce energy demand and costs, including better use of existing heating controls, alternative tariffs, and behavioural changes to energy use. They will also support with referrals to other schemes supporting access to Energy Company Obligation and home updgrade grants.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Perth Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Perth
Grant award
£194,422
Project Name
Perthshire Energy Saving Network

This project is building on the successful delivery of a previous Energy Redress funded project. The project will continue to help householders lower bills, reduce energy use, provide small energy saving items, challenge incorrect billing and access grants and schemes to help with arrears and property improvements.  They will also refer people to specialist colleagues within their organisation to tackle additional benefits, housing and debt issues, helping in an holistic way to address the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Energy Advisors will support their Perthshire Energy Support Network to

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This project is building on the successful delivery of a previous Energy Redress funded project. The project will continue to help householders lower bills, reduce energy use, provide small energy saving items, challenge incorrect billing and access grants and schemes to help with arrears and property improvements.  They will also refer people to specialist colleagues within their organisation to tackle additional benefits, housing and debt issues, helping in an holistic way to address the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Energy Advisors will support their Perthshire Energy Support Network to reach the elderly, families, single parents and those living rurally. They will also inform and educate local partners, ensuring they are aware of the help the project can provide and how people can access their support. 

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Citizens Advice East Suffolk
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Suffolk
Grant award
£48,938
Project Name
Fighting Fuel Poverty

The aim of the project is to make vulnerable residents of East Suffolk aware of energy saving measures available to them, combined with advice on how to access support and make sustainable changes to their energy usage. Energy advice will be provided by trained advisers, who will attend community events to share information more widely in the community. Advice will also be accessible by phone, email and face to face across East Suffolk.

Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Hodan Somali Community
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • London
Grant award
£49,384
Project Name
EnergySavers: Empowering Somali and BAME Families

The project aims to address energy-related challenges faced by Somali and other BAME families in West London. This project will provide tailored, culturally relevant energy advice to help these communities reduce energy consumption and lower their energy bills. By engaging 150 households, they aim to deliver comprehensive advice sessions on energy efficiency, grants, and sustainable practices. The project includes outreach sessions in community centres and mosques, distributing bilingual educational materials, and providing one-to-one advice through an advice line and drop-in centre. Home

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The project aims to address energy-related challenges faced by Somali and other BAME families in West London. This project will provide tailored, culturally relevant energy advice to help these communities reduce energy consumption and lower their energy bills. By engaging 150 households, they aim to deliver comprehensive advice sessions on energy efficiency, grants, and sustainable practices. The project includes outreach sessions in community centres and mosques, distributing bilingual educational materials, and providing one-to-one advice through an advice line and drop-in centre. Home energy audits will identify areas for improvement, and they will assist households in applying for grants and subsidies for energy-efficient upgrades. 

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Pure Leapfrog
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • London
Grant award
£185,499
Project Name
Community Energy Virtual Microgrids

The project refines a business model design for virtual microgrids, allowing a community energy group to sell electricity at lower prices to local consumers. To achieve this a community would need to be able to access the Balancing and Settlement system, via a Balancing Responsible Party; to design and correctly size generation and storage assets; and to operate control systems. The project will manage these aspects on behalf of the community, alongside ongoing support with the paperwork and administration of implementing and managing this solution. 

This will allow the community to set their

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The project refines a business model design for virtual microgrids, allowing a community energy group to sell electricity at lower prices to local consumers. To achieve this a community would need to be able to access the Balancing and Settlement system, via a Balancing Responsible Party; to design and correctly size generation and storage assets; and to operate control systems. The project will manage these aspects on behalf of the community, alongside ongoing support with the paperwork and administration of implementing and managing this solution. 

This will allow the community to set their own rates for purchasing excess energy spilled to the grid from local renewable energy assets, and selling energy back to local consumers. The project aims to provide local consumers with lower rates for their energy, whilst still generating profit for community benefit (e.g. through a local funding pot).

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Caritas Diocese of Salford
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Manchester
Grant award
£243,310
Project Name
Caritas Energy Advice Service

This project aims to increase energy awareness and reduce fuel poverty among some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded households living in Burnley, Blackburn and surrounding areas. As part of their Energy Advice Service, advisors will provide one-to-one, face-to-face advice to families and people through connections with schools and parishes. They will provide interpreters and translated materials of the most used languages in the area as well as British Sign Language accessible information and interpreters. They will also supply small energy-saving items to help make immediate

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This project aims to increase energy awareness and reduce fuel poverty among some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded households living in Burnley, Blackburn and surrounding areas. As part of their Energy Advice Service, advisors will provide one-to-one, face-to-face advice to families and people through connections with schools and parishes. They will provide interpreters and translated materials of the most used languages in the area as well as British Sign Language accessible information and interpreters. They will also supply small energy-saving items to help make immediate beneficial changes.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Community Energy Plus
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Truro
Grant award
£690,163
Project Name
Cornwall Energy Advice Service

This project will expand on a previously funded project, to provide support to vulnerable consumers across Cornwall who are at risk of, or experiencing fuel poverty, combined with active outreach to bring services to the most vulnerable. With high levels of deprivation and poor-quality housing stock, demand from households in rural and coastal towns across Cornwall for energy advice and information and more intensive, in-depth casework and advocacy continues at high levels.

The project aims to target support towards hard-to-reach households and provide tailored support to over 4,000 households

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This project will expand on a previously funded project, to provide support to vulnerable consumers across Cornwall who are at risk of, or experiencing fuel poverty, combined with active outreach to bring services to the most vulnerable. With high levels of deprivation and poor-quality housing stock, demand from households in rural and coastal towns across Cornwall for energy advice and information and more intensive, in-depth casework and advocacy continues at high levels.

The project aims to target support towards hard-to-reach households and provide tailored support to over 4,000 households with a combination of impartial, telephone-based information and advice, including home visits, advocacy and casework for those with complex needs, training for frontline workers in partner organisations, help to secure funding and support to install capital measures. 

Their holistic approach means vulnerable consumers will also be signposted or referred to other health and wellbeing, debt and income maximisation services.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre Ltd
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Northallerton
Grant award
£571,384
Project Name
Future Energies Project

The project will ensure that households across North Yorkshire are fully supported to participate in, and benefit from, the necessary transition to green technologies. Helping them to improve their homes’ energy efficiency long term and through this reduce the likelihood of entrenched fuel poverty. Importantly, households will also be able to comply with the UK government’s target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.  

Fully trained and qualified energy advisors will provide free, professional, confidential and impartial advice to over 5,000 vulnerable households on EPC ratings, suitable green

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The project will ensure that households across North Yorkshire are fully supported to participate in, and benefit from, the necessary transition to green technologies. Helping them to improve their homes’ energy efficiency long term and through this reduce the likelihood of entrenched fuel poverty. Importantly, households will also be able to comply with the UK government’s target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.  

Fully trained and qualified energy advisors will provide free, professional, confidential and impartial advice to over 5,000 vulnerable households on EPC ratings, suitable green technology options and how to access and implement these.  

Advice provision will incorporate home visits to conduct EPC assessments alongside help to apply to green technology grant schemes for home improvements. As North Yorkshire is predominantly rural, the project’s Community Champions will ensure they can raise awareness about green technologies and EPC ratings in all parts of the county with an outreach van and bus.  

If required, households will be directed into North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre’s other advice services for specialist support, for example around housing, debt or consumer goods.       

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