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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
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
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
Sharing and learning at an open homes event in Bristol, 2011
Green Open Homes
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
This heap of mining spoil, or 'batch' is a reminder of the area's coal-mining past.
PlanLoCaL: A 'renewable energy action area' for North East Somerset
Local energy
Solar PV is proving a popular renewable energy option among community groups
East Midlands community renewable energy workshops
Local energy
Bristol Community Energy: Local Energy Initiatives
Bristol Community Energy: Local Energy Initiatives
Local energy
Solar panels on the roof of a landmark community building, Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, installed by Ethical Solar, Bristol Power CIC (community interest company) and Bristol Energy Cooperative, and partly funded through the Catalyst Fund
Bristol Community Energy: Catalyst Fund
Local energy
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