Funded Energy Redress Projects

The project aims to offer support with managing household expenses and adopting sustainable energy practices to empower young unemployed people between the age of 18 and 24, including care leavers, who are new to independent living. They will provide comprehensive education and practical training on essential life skills such as operating and regulating water and heating systems, utilising timer functions, and implementing basic yet effective energy-saving measures. To engage a wider audience of young people effectively, they will create regular and engaging social media content, including TikTok and Instagram tutorials, to make energy-saving concepts accessible, entertaining and informative.

The project will provide energy advice, advocacy, and practical solutions to vulnerable social housing residents in the Northwest, affected by high living and energy costs. Experienced, qualified advisors will provide tailored energy advice and signpost to wrap-around support to meet complex needs of tenants. The Energy Advisors will offer guidance on reducing energy consumption, identifying energy savings, and implementing low-cost energy-saving measures. Learning from previous successful projects funded by the Energy Redress Scheme, advisors will address both direct energy issues and underlying problems to create long-term solutions.

They will share their knowledge and best practices of delivering the project with up to 30 local charities, to enable them to build and grow their energy advice offer within local communities.

Warmer Homes West Midlands is an ambitious partnership programme to provide a universal, top-level energy advice service for the fuel poor across the seven urban local authority areas in the West Midlands Combined Authority area. This is a large-scale energy advice programme will help over 7,000 vulnerable households, create nine new jobs and help secure a further eight jobs. The project aims to reduce fuel poverty and improve the health and wellbeing of people with pre-existing cold and damp related medical conditions, through energy saving advice, energy saving measures an income maximisation advice. Advice will be delivered by a team of qualified energy advisors by telephone, through case work, home visits and community events where it is safe to do so. A team of community outreach workers will ensure that as wide a range of people as possible will be able to take advantage of Warmer Homes West Midlands.

The project aims to implement a pioneering multi-site microgrid that explores the potential for three types of microgrid to support the transition to net zero. This includes microgrids for flats in Bexhill, for a neighborhood in Bexhill, and for a whole town in Battle. Their approach includes deploying cutting-edge technologies such as the Transmission Upgrade Avoidance (TUA) scheme to avoid grid connection delays and solshare to share solar power. Their solar farm’s innovative financial model and community-private ownership will show how solar farms can provide maximum benefit to local communities.

This project will continue to build on the successful delivery of a previous Energy Redress funded project, providing free, impartial advice to energy-vulnerable householders within the Telford & Wrekin Council (T&WC) borough. The project will work in partnership with Telford Crisis Support (TCS) and Citizens Advice Bureau Telford (CABT). They aim to support over 4,500 vulnerable households directly and make clear, reliable information available to thousands more. Energy advice will be delivered through home visits, telephone support, 1-to-1 appointments, and at community hubs/events. The project will also offer support to improve home energy efficiency, through the installation of low-cost energy efficiency measures, and signposting to grant funding.

Barvas Estate Trust Community LED will aim to reduce fuel poverty amongst across the Barvas Estate area. Our approach is innovative, focussing on efficient cooking and lighting, which all households can do something about and will lead to greater efficiencies.

Through a joint partnership of Barvas Estate Trust and The Energy Advisory Service (TEAS SCIO) home visits will be carried out across this community owned land trust in the Outer Hebrides. Ebico Trust have match funded this advice project through the provision of free slow cookers and LED lighting for households within the estate area.

The project will also engage with the community to work together to develop a slow cooker recipe book which will promote discussion across a wide range of ages and capitalise on the potential energy efficient savings. Engaging with such a diverse age range ensures that knowledge and experience can be shared between different generations creating an excellent communication tool.

The home visits enable local residents to take up in-depth energy advice, which will be delivered when LED lighting and slow cookers are installed. Home visits include:

• Assisting the householder with energy efficiency advice.
• Tariff and switching advice
• Billing enquiries
• Installation of LED lightbulbs, slow cookers and carbon monoxide monitors
• Check for possible insulation measures
• Referrals to support agencies
• Income maximisation through benefits checks.
• Grants for measures available at that time.

To raise further awareness and interest in the project, community talks and school visits will be carried out in the estate area.