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. 

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Champions will engage new audiences with sustainable energy at existing community events and meetings.
Bristol Energy Champions
Local energy
Supporting community energy groups
Local energy
UCEF will stimulate community projects of a significant scale
Urban Community Energy Fund (UCEF)
Local energy
The busy and vibrant SouthBank Centre will use its grant money to purchase a new boiler
Bristol Community Building Fund
Local energy
Bristol Green Capital Energy Action Group
Bristol Green Capital Energy Action Group
Local energy
Community solar in Wedmore, Somerset
Community Energy Practitioners' Forum
Local energy
The catalysts receive training through day seminars and webinars
Youth Community Energy Catalysts
Local energy
What do young people think about renewable energy developments, and their impact on the landscape? What might they suggest?
Renewables in the Rural Landscape: workshops for schools
Local energy
Less is More
Less is More
Local energy
Rural Community Energy Fund
Local energy
Bedminster Energy Group's interaction with their local community increased interest in energy efficiency
Community energy outreach pilot
Local energy
More pictures from Bristol Green Doors ...
Green Open Homes
Local energy
Helping local people decide how their community will tackle climate change
Low Carbon Localism
Local energy
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
Local energy
An example of a PV-enabled motorway sound barrier of the kind that may become common in the UK following pioneering work by the M40 Chilterns Environmental Group
Community Energy Challenge
Local energy
Detail from a map produced for the comprehensive housing assessment for Transition Taunton. Shows hard-to-treat dwellings (red star) and cavity walled dwellings (grey dot)
Supporting bids to the Local Energy Assessment Fund
Local energy
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