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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.

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

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

An example of the material produced by the programme

Every Action Counts

A wind farm development, such as this one, could potentially have significant benefits for the local community

Community Benefits from Wind Power

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