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.

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

Warm Streets Communities supports a range of grassroots organisations

Warm Streets Communities

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

Bristol students experiment with various designs of turbine at a CSE wind workshop

Wind workshops in schools

Data aimed at helping to improve houses such as these

Assisting with the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP)

The Beacon Community Regeneration project in Falmouth is the type of scheme that the CESP should be flexible enough to include

Review of the market for CESP community partnerships

Are communities – like this renewable energy group in Wales – well-placed to influence individual behaviour?

Individual Mobilisation Through Community

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