Our work

Insulation & heating

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.

Warm & Safe Wiltshire

A dedicated freephone number has been created to give Ovo Energy customers energy efficiency and renewable energy advice from across the UK.

Ovo Energy Advice Service

The BBC micro:bit has two programmable buttons, is Bluetooth enabled, has a built-in thermostat, accelerometer and compass, and can connect to other devices and sensors.

Energy for Schools

Privately rented properties are twice as likely as the rest of the housing stock to have no loft insulation and twice as likely to have no double glazing.

Advice for landlords on new minimum energy efficiency standards

Healthy Homes Dorset - insulating homes in Dorset

The GLA, based at City Hall, (shown here) hope to be able to take control of the spiralling cost of keeping warm.

Fuel poverty in London: research and policy report

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

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

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

Asthma and other respiratory problems can be made worse by cold, damp living conditions [photo posed by model].

PITCH - Preventing Illness by Tackling Cold Homes

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