Our work

We have around 60 projects on the go at any one time, each helping us meet our charitable goals of finding solutions to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes. Unless you're viewing this page on a mobile device, our projects below are organised by our work areas (home energy, local energy, research and policy analysis) and by topic.

Heat networks are disruptive, so the more that can be done to smooth the process, the better ...

THERMOS - Accelerating heat networks in Europe

There's a good fit between district heating and blocks of homes owned by housing associations and local councils, like this one in Central London

District heating: delivering affordable and sustainable energy report

Back: four different kinds of sensor in use in Chariot. Front: the data hub

High-tech sensors and web apps for more engaging energy advice

Improving a home's energy efficiency will make it warmer and cheaper to heat

WPD Affordable Warmth Local Action Fund (2016-17)

How can we use - in the public interest - the data that millions of smart meters like this or similar will generate?

Smart meter energy data: Exploring the public interest agenda

At the 2018 summer school in Wales

Bright Green Future

Renewable Heat Incentive in the social housing sector

Maps of parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales showing where the highest proportions of the most efficient and least efficient dwellings are located

Mapping domestic energy efficiency in Great Britain

Thrive Renewables Community Benefit Programme

Thrive Renewables Community Benefit Programme

Electrification of appliances and machines (like cars), along with cheaper sensors and dimishing limits to computing power, are some of the technological developments that will prompt changes to energy infrastructure

'Smart living' in Wales

The new boiler, with giant rosette, being installed at The Arts Factory in the Rhondda Valley, a beneficiary of the last round of WPD Community Chest funding.

Western Power Distribution Community Chest (2010-17)

Projects in a box

Many households are under-heated in winter, because their energy bills are unaffordable – this has knock-on negative effects on residents' health and wellbeing

Energy tariff options for vulnerable consumers

Champions will engage new audiences with sustainable energy at existing community events and meetings.

Bristol Energy Champions

The smart energy vision includes enhancing the financial value of renewable heat and power generated in the city – particularly from variable sources like wind, solar and tidal.

Bristol Smart Energy City Collaboration

Policy analysis

A smart meter in-home display showing energy use in real-time

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