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.

External solid wall insulation has the added benefit of improving the house's appearance, as shown on the left-hand property.

Householder experiences of solid wall insulation

Helping local people decide how their community will tackle climate change

Low Carbon Localism

Non-domestic buildings account for around 40% of UK greenhouse gas emissions

Energy behaviours of people occupying non-domestic buildings

Energy monitors are already found in about a million UK homes. They help save electricity and money, but they need a little help from the householders

Energy monitors and home energy advice

Energy audit for Wiltshire Council's Bourne Hill Offices

Local authorities can use the Housing Assessment Model to find out which neighbourhoods stand to gain most from Green Deal and ECO

The Housing Assessment Model

Policy analysis

Smart and happy meters

Smart and happy meters

All households will see a reduction in their energy bills in 2020 relative to the ‘no policy’ bill. Single pensioners see the smallest reduction, suggesting they bear the brunt of the policy costs and/or stand to benefit less from the policy outcomes

Who benefits, who pays?

How should the Green Deal ensure that the measures offered by the scheme are accessible to all?

The re-vamped PlanLoCaL website has all the guidance a community group needs to get an energy efficiency project up and running

Helping communities make the most of the Green Deal

Yes, you can touch. All the models are robust enough to withstand a certain amount of poking and prodding

Sustainable energy demonstration kit

Average SAP ratings for heritage and non-heritage properties for the current housing stock and for modelled improvements under three different scenarios

A strategic housing stock energy study for Somer Housing Group

The heat map in split-screen mode, showing total heat demand in Hereford. The circled 'hotspot' in the left-hand map is a public swimming pool

National Heat Map

Policy analysis

Could you give energy advice to older people?

Home Energy Project Assistants

A solid-walled house in Somerset receives external insulation. The disruption is relatively minimal and the finished surface is attractive and ready for painting

Somerset West Home Energy

Older meters such as these will soon be replaced by new 'smart' meters – which should in theory bring benefits to consumers

Smart meter review for Which? calls for action on roll-out plan

Policy analysis

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