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.

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

Less is More

Rural Community Energy Fund

Bedminster Energy Group's interaction with their local community increased interest in energy efficiency

Community energy outreach pilot

Sharing and learning at an open homes event in Bristol, 2011

Green Open Homes

Helping local people decide how their community will tackle climate change

Low Carbon Localism

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

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

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

Solar PV is proving a popular renewable energy option among community groups

East Midlands community renewable energy workshops

Bristol Community Energy: Local Energy Initiatives

Bristol Community Energy: Local Energy Initiatives

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

Rachel Coxcoon uses the PlanLoCaL model to talk about the siting and planning of renewable energy, and how communities can get involved

PlanLoCaL: scale-model brings local people to the planners' table

Talking about planning – PlanLoCaL aims to get communities engaged with their local planning department, particularly in order to identify and promote low-carbon initiatives

PlanLoCaL: overview

This map of Dorset shows the areas of woodland in the county, with the coniferous (yellow), broadleaved (red), and other (blue) denoting the different types of woodland

Woodfuel supply and demand in Dorset

Redcliffe's post-war tower blocks on a wintery morning

Redcliffe Carbon Challenge

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