Local authorities

CSE provides a range of services for local authorities designed to help councils meet their current targets and commitments more effectively and to develop their role in building a low-carbon, sustainable energy future for their local area.

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The services we typically provide cover:

Toolkits and support in assessing and benchmarking performance on carbon reduction and tackling fuel poverty.
Islington  |  Easington |  Wakefield  |  Sefton

Strategy development including energy efficiency strategies, fuel poverty/affordable warmth strategies, renewable energy strategies and carbon reduction strategies.
Cornwall  |  Bournemouth and Poole |  Devon  |  Dorset

Planning policy support, specifically with respect to sustainable energy and renewable energy policy.
Bristol  |  Plymouth  |  West Sussex

Technical consulting support including buildings audits, detailed technology feasibility studies, data analysis, GIS heat mapping and associated local analysis.
Bristol  |  Mendip  |  GLA  |  South West England  |  East Midlands

Staff training, energy champion programmes and energy awareness campaigns.
Bath & North East Somerset  |  Fenland and East Cambridgeshire

CSE works closely with the local authorities in our ‘home patch' of Somerset and former Avon. Linking closely with the work of the National Energy Advice Service in the South West plus other charitably-funded local projects, we carry out a range of advice and outreach activities for local householders and community groups. See here for information on our local advice services.

We also helped to develop and now manage a number of grant schemes in partnership with our local councils including the Warm Streets grant scheme, the Bristol Energy Efficiency Scheme and Somerset West Hard to Treat.

Bristol's city hall, known locally as the Council House, is the distinctive curved building to the back of the picture

Download our 'Support for local authorities' services summary here.

For an informal discussion about how CSE can help local authorities contact Janine Michael, Head of Development  (0117 934 1414).