Our work

Policy

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. 

Our work areas

Topics

Sustainable Neighbourhood Planning Support
Local energy
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
Awel Aman Tawe, grew out of a local regeneration charity which was looking into asset-based community development
Local energy schemes: how can we get more of them in low-income areas?
Local energy
Smarter warmer homes: a workshop
Research
Solar panels on council housing in Warwickshire
Community energy benefits in deprived communities
Local energy
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
Research
Wales' history is tied up with fossil fuels, but is there a low carbon future?
West Wales Zero Carbon Zones report (2016)
Research
Mapping Birmingham's solar PV potential (2016-2017)
Mapping Birmingham's solar PV potential (2016-2017)
Research
Measuring vulnerability for distribution network operators
Measuring vulnerability for distribution network operators
Research
Future Energy Landscapes - community consultation method
Local energy
Heat networks are disruptive, so the more that can be done to smooth the process, the better ...
THERMOS - Accelerating heat networks in Europe
Research
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
Research
Bright Green Future
Local energy
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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