Local energy

Local energy

Enabling local authorities and communities across the UK to develop effective responses to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes is a central feature of CSE’s work. For an overview of our work in this area, to download useful tools and resources, and to sign-up for our free Community Energy Update, click here.

Supporting community energy groups

Future Energy Landscapes

Energy advice can help households to lower and manage their bills

WPD Affordable Warmth Local Action Fund

Bright Green Future

Avonmouth community gather at a local Thrive Renewables site - four 2MW turbines capable of powering 4,600 homes

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.

WPD Community Chest (2016)

SEPD Resilient Communities Fund

SEPD Resilient Communities Fund

Projects in a box

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

Bristol Energy Champions

We have a tool to map the resources and constraints in a local area

Neighbourhood planning support

Expressions of interest have been submitted and the projects are currently being reviewed; the final portfolio will be announced in March 2015.

Our Environment Our Future

We offer training to local authorities, community groups, employers, energy advice providers, housing associations and others

Building capacity through training

UCEF will stimulate community projects of a significant scale

Urban Community Energy Fund (UCEF)

The busy and vibrant SouthBank Centre will use its grant money to purchase a new boiler

Bristol Community Building Fund

Bristol Green Capital Energy Action Group

Bristol Green Capital Energy Action Group

Community solar in Wedmore, Somerset

Community Energy Practitioners' Forum

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