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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 8
Round 8
Charity
Citizens Advice East Suffolk
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
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
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
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 8
Round 8
Charity
Act on Energy
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£1,490,110
Project Name
Warmer Homes West Midlands phase 3

Warmer Homes West Midlands Phase 3 will to continue to build on the work of previous projects, providing an energy advice service for the fuel poor across the West Midlands Combined Authority area, that has already supported over 25,000 individual households across the region. 

Advice will be offered through a team of fully qualified energy advisors, community outreach workers, pathway sector specialists and trainers, over the telephone, through home visits, training sessions, events, clinics and surgeries. They will use innovative technology; driving and stimulating community capacity

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Warmer Homes West Midlands Phase 3 will to continue to build on the work of previous projects, providing an energy advice service for the fuel poor across the West Midlands Combined Authority area, that has already supported over 25,000 individual households across the region. 

Advice will be offered through a team of fully qualified energy advisors, community outreach workers, pathway sector specialists and trainers, over the telephone, through home visits, training sessions, events, clinics and surgeries. They will use innovative technology; driving and stimulating community capacity particularly in excluded and underrepresented groups.

This support will enable more confident, empowered and resourceful consumers regarding their energy use; lowering energy consumption and saving money through changing energy related behaviours.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Citizens Advice Rotherham & District
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£100,163
Project Name
The Energy Debt Support Service

This project will offer dedicated energy appointments with a specialist debt advisor, to empower and support vulnerable people in Rotherham, in their transition out of fuel poverty.

Support will be delivered through casework, and the advisor will engage directly with suppliers to solve issues people may be experiencing with billing, negotiating payment plans and enquiring about grants with the aim to reduce fuel debt. Additionally, the accredited advisors will work with people to introduce strategies to maximise their income and provide further education around energy-saving techniques.

Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
IMO Charity
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£76,956
Project Name
‘Be Warm, Save Money’

The project will build on a previous funded project, and continue to support vulnerable people experiencing fuel poverty in the most deprived areas of Blackburn with Darwen, by giving them the tools and resources they need to save energy, stay warm, reduce their bills, manage debt and access benefits and grants. 

The project will focus exclusively on supporting people who are missing out on vital savings and opportunities because they either have English as a second language and struggle to understand important information, or are older and socially and digitally excluded from accessing the

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The project will build on a previous funded project, and continue to support vulnerable people experiencing fuel poverty in the most deprived areas of Blackburn with Darwen, by giving them the tools and resources they need to save energy, stay warm, reduce their bills, manage debt and access benefits and grants. 

The project will focus exclusively on supporting people who are missing out on vital savings and opportunities because they either have English as a second language and struggle to understand important information, or are older and socially and digitally excluded from accessing the same important information. 

Energy Advisors will deliver 1:1 advice sessions in community drop-ins across nine key locations, making home visits to the most vulnerable community members, providing a regular telephone support service and running monthly community-awareness events packed with vital practical information.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Severn Wye Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£748,355
Project Name
Carbon Negative Household Energy through Pyrolysis

This project will test the financial and operational sustainability of generating carbon-negative electricity and supplying it to Bromford Housing at below market rates, tackling both climate change and fuel poverty. Pyrolysis allows carbon in organic feedstocks (such as woody biomass, sewage sludge or arboreal risings) to be sequestered, thereby resulting in carbon negative heat. This project will be a first-of-a-kind system in the UK and will demonstrate how waste heat energy can be converted to electricity and exported to the grid in a cost-effective manner. 

The project will purchase the

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This project will test the financial and operational sustainability of generating carbon-negative electricity and supplying it to Bromford Housing at below market rates, tackling both climate change and fuel poverty. Pyrolysis allows carbon in organic feedstocks (such as woody biomass, sewage sludge or arboreal risings) to be sequestered, thereby resulting in carbon negative heat. This project will be a first-of-a-kind system in the UK and will demonstrate how waste heat energy can be converted to electricity and exported to the grid in a cost-effective manner. 

The project will purchase the capital equipment necessary to run the trial period to prove the concept. Optimising the running of the plant with reduced associated costs, exploring combined models of electricity output, carbon credits, and biochar sales. Alongside this they will run a research study to design the legal structures for the distribution of the energy to fuel poor households.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Cassiltoun Housing Association
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£95,834
Project Name
Cassiltoun Energy Advice Project

The project will provide support to tenants, factored owners and service users of Cassiltoun Housing, Stables Nursery and Cassiltoun’s community groups, who struggle to heat their homes.

An energy advisor will work directly with households on low incomes, and those vulnerable to fuel poverty and fuel debt, to reduce expenditure on household energy by providing information to help them understand their bills, access affordable tariffs, and encourage behavioral changes. The energy advisor will also work closely with an existing money advice team to ensure household income is maximised, by

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The project will provide support to tenants, factored owners and service users of Cassiltoun Housing, Stables Nursery and Cassiltoun’s community groups, who struggle to heat their homes.

An energy advisor will work directly with households on low incomes, and those vulnerable to fuel poverty and fuel debt, to reduce expenditure on household energy by providing information to help them understand their bills, access affordable tariffs, and encourage behavioral changes. The energy advisor will also work closely with an existing money advice team to ensure household income is maximised, by supporting householders to identify and apply for benefits, suitable grants and other financial support to assist with fuel usage and debts.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Cumbria Action for Sustainability
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£335,516
Project Name
Home Energy Made Easy

The project builds on four years of partnership working between Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), People Powered Retrofit, Cumbrian community groups and local vetted installers, to make home energy improvements more accessible and less daunting for households.

Working with volunteer sustainability groups, they will continue to engage local people at Solar Made Easy events around the county. At these events, local vetted partner installers answer questions about solar PV systems, and CAfS then facilitate quotes and support households through to installation. Alongside this, the project

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The project builds on four years of partnership working between Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), People Powered Retrofit, Cumbrian community groups and local vetted installers, to make home energy improvements more accessible and less daunting for households.

Working with volunteer sustainability groups, they will continue to engage local people at Solar Made Easy events around the county. At these events, local vetted partner installers answer questions about solar PV systems, and CAfS then facilitate quotes and support households through to installation. Alongside this, the project will launch ‘Heat Pumps Made Easy’ using the same replicable delivery model, adding expert energy modelling to assess whether people’s homes are heat pump ready.

Their partnership working with sustainability groups also extends into delivering free thermal imaging surveys in their local communities. The project will continue to train and support volunteers to use thermal imaging to raise awareness of where homes are leaking heat, and to advise households how CAfS can support them to address it. This support starts with home energy modelling, continues through design and specification stages and ends with support during installation.

To help more people overcome the barriers to retrofit, the project will also deliver a number of webinars about home energy and renewables plus a series of ‘pop-up’ home energy advice sessions around the county. 

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Oswestry Community Action
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£47,288
Project Name
Saving energy - North Shropshire

The project aims to address loneliness, improve energy awareness and tackle fuel poverty for vulnerable households in North Shropshire.

According to National Energy Action, in North Shropshire, 9,300 households (19.3%) live in fuel poverty.  The national average being 13.06%.  Through this project, they aim to improve that statistic by helping households out of fuel poverty and equipping them with the skills and knowledge to become more energy conscious. 

The project will recruit and train Energy Champions, who will provide energy advice to vulnerable households and encourage greater

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The project aims to address loneliness, improve energy awareness and tackle fuel poverty for vulnerable households in North Shropshire.

According to National Energy Action, in North Shropshire, 9,300 households (19.3%) live in fuel poverty.  The national average being 13.06%.  Through this project, they aim to improve that statistic by helping households out of fuel poverty and equipping them with the skills and knowledge to become more energy conscious. 

The project will recruit and train Energy Champions, who will provide energy advice to vulnerable households and encourage greater participation in community activities at their community hub in Oswestry, to reduce time spent alone and in social isolation. Alongside energy advice, they will also offer winter warmth packs to those in crisis situations.

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