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Funded Energy Redress Projects

Since the Energy Redress Scheme launched Phase One of the scheme in 2018, Energy Saving Trust has awarded over £102 million to fund nearly 538 projects across England, Scotland and Wales. These grants have enabled organisations to deliver projects that help energy consumers in vulnerable situations to save energy and money in their homes and to live warmer, more comfortable lives. Phase Two of the scheme launched in May 2022.

To find out more about the projects we have funded, see the full list, which can be filtered.

You can also find specific case studies of some of the funded projects here.

Full list of projects

This is a complete list of successfully funded Energy Redress Scheme projects since 2018.

Phase 2
Round 2
Charity
Community Advice and Law Service (CALS)
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Leicester
Grant award
£204,350
Project Name
Energywise Plus

The project will offer holistic advice and support for energy customers who meet Ofgem’s vulnerability criteria by helping them to: manage their energy accounts; reduce energy consumption; maximise their income; access other services (e.g. debt/benefits advice, mental health support). The service will be delivered through information/awareness-raising events and one-to-one advice offered at CALS, at community venues across Leicester and through home visits. The project will be delivered in partnership with organisations across Leicester, serving communities that experience high levels of

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The project will offer holistic advice and support for energy customers who meet Ofgem’s vulnerability criteria by helping them to: manage their energy accounts; reduce energy consumption; maximise their income; access other services (e.g. debt/benefits advice, mental health support). The service will be delivered through information/awareness-raising events and one-to-one advice offered at CALS, at community venues across Leicester and through home visits. The project will be delivered in partnership with organisations across Leicester, serving communities that experience high levels of economic disadvantage to maximise reach and complement existing service provision.

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Phase 2
Round 2
Charity
Marches Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Shrewsbury
Grant award
£603,789
Project Name
Warmer Derby and Derbyshire 3

Warmer Derby & Derbyshire 3 (WDD3) will be run by Marches Energy Agency (MEA), a charity with 25 years’ experience supporting local people to be warm and well at home. With WDD3, MEA will aim to provide free, independent advice and practical help to tackle fuel poverty and cold homes for a further 4000 people. They will expand from their free phone advice line with in-depth case work support, home visits with low-cost measures and crisis support, and signpost to insulation schemes. They will reach communities excluded through language and cultural barriers, with training and direct assistance

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Warmer Derby & Derbyshire 3 (WDD3) will be run by Marches Energy Agency (MEA), a charity with 25 years’ experience supporting local people to be warm and well at home. With WDD3, MEA will aim to provide free, independent advice and practical help to tackle fuel poverty and cold homes for a further 4000 people. They will expand from their free phone advice line with in-depth case work support, home visits with low-cost measures and crisis support, and signpost to insulation schemes. They will reach communities excluded through language and cultural barriers, with training and direct assistance. Referral networks and partnerships will be strengthened, such as with Adult Social Services, food and warm banks, mental health agencies, and women’s refuges.

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Phase 2
Round 2
Charity
Severn Wye Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Gloucester
Grant award
£658,229
Project Name
Energy Advocacy Herefordshire and Gloucestershire

This project will support approximately 4,050 disadvantaged and vulnerable households who struggle with fuel poverty. The project will help households to understand their energy use, save energy in their homes, communicate with their energy providers, and access grants and other support to better manage their bills. Ultimately, the project aims to reduce the number of people falling into fuel poverty, saving a projected total of £877,000 on energy costs (£1.57m small measures lifetime-savings). The project will work with diverse communities including ethnic minorities, refugees, those with

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This project will support approximately 4,050 disadvantaged and vulnerable households who struggle with fuel poverty. The project will help households to understand their energy use, save energy in their homes, communicate with their energy providers, and access grants and other support to better manage their bills. Ultimately, the project aims to reduce the number of people falling into fuel poverty, saving a projected total of £877,000 on energy costs (£1.57m small measures lifetime-savings). The project will work with diverse communities including ethnic minorities, refugees, those with health conditions, and older people. This is a partnership between Severn Wye, Integrated Healthcare, Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS), and other community organisations.

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Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
https://www.sharenergy.coop/
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Shrewsbury
Grant award
£199,600
Project Name
The Community Heat Development Unit

Heat networks are a vital component of the UK’s net zero strategy. They offer substantial opportunities in decarbonising heat, reducing end-user heating costs and decoupling consumers from energy market volatility. Community district heat networks (CDHNs) operate for social and environmental benefit and are trusted, transparent and accountable. The project will work with new and existing community groups across the UK and establish an appropriate technical and social approach for deliverable heat networks at community scale  and more.

Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
Darlington Association on Disability
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Darlington
Grant award
£49,931
Project Name
Accessible Energy Support

As a Disabled People User Led organisation, working across Tees Valley, the project will use the Social Model of Disability, and the organisation’s experience as disabled people, to reduce and remove barriers faced by disabled people and carers to have equal access to understand the energy market and use energy saving measures. Support will be available to people who are living in fuel poverty or at risk, due to the current energy climate.

Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
Severn Wye Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • Wales
  • Highnam
Grant award
£299,861
Project Name
Energy Advice and Advocacy in Monmouthshire

This project will support approximately 4,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable households who struggle with fuel poverty. The project will combine a free advice line with face-to-face advocacy to support people to take control of their energy use and become less vulnerable to the risks/impacts of fuel poverty. It will help people understand their energy use, save energy in their homes, communicate with their energy providers, and access grants and other support to better manage their bills.  The project will work with diverse communities including those with health conditions, older people and

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This project will support approximately 4,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable households who struggle with fuel poverty. The project will combine a free advice line with face-to-face advocacy to support people to take control of their energy use and become less vulnerable to the risks/impacts of fuel poverty. It will help people understand their energy use, save energy in their homes, communicate with their energy providers, and access grants and other support to better manage their bills.  The project will work with diverse communities including those with health conditions, older people and people living in areas of deprivation. This is a partnership between Severn Wye and Monmouthshire County Council. The project will allow vulnerable households to be able to access support for energy efficiency improvements, which will reduce energy costs and improve health. They will work to find long-term solutions to fuel poverty, empowering and helping residents to avoid the choice between heating and eating. 

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Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
Aberfeldy Parish Church
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Aberfeldy
Grant award
£102,314
Project Name
Warm Connections 2

Warm Connections provides a free, impartial energy advice service to households, focussing on reducing carbon emissions through behavioural changes, energy saving measures and renewable technologies. The project area covers Aberfeldy and surrounds (Ward Four Highland west of the A9, plus Killin) and is classified by the Scottish Government, as ‘remote rural’ or ‘very remote rural’; over half of households are off the gas grid. By being based within the project area, Warm Connections has made face to face home energy advice far more accessible to householders in the area.

Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
Electric Corby CIC
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Weldon
Grant award
£160,651
Project Name
Community-Led Energy Allocation of Renewables (CLEAR)

CLEAR maximises the use of local, green generation by matching solar generation with local domestic customer demand.  All available renewable generation is matched with local customers, digitally and automatically before any electricity is imported from the Grid unlocking benefits of c3.2p/kWh for matched electricity that’s shared amongst participants. This project will trial the roll-out of a new P2P energy time-matching service not yet accessible to energy consumers that will reduce customer bills and reduce the environmental impact and carbon emissions of the energy used. With potential for

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CLEAR maximises the use of local, green generation by matching solar generation with local domestic customer demand.  All available renewable generation is matched with local customers, digitally and automatically before any electricity is imported from the Grid unlocking benefits of c3.2p/kWh for matched electricity that’s shared amongst participants. This project will trial the roll-out of a new P2P energy time-matching service not yet accessible to energy consumers that will reduce customer bills and reduce the environmental impact and carbon emissions of the energy used. With potential for UK-wide replication, CLEAR provides immediate access to cheaper, greener energy for households, and incentivizes the installation of new domestic PV systems. The project presents a blueprint for maximising local renewable energy generation and consumption.

 

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Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
The Haven Wolverhampton
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Wolverhampton
Grant award
£130,510
Project Name
Increasing energy awareness & resilience

The project will support women who have been subjected to domestic abuse and are vulnerable to high energy costs. They will support women with interactive energy saving advice in person, on the telephone and digitally and in community settings where women can feel safe, reduction of energy bills, and to access holistic support for complex issues experiences as a result of abuse.

Phase 2
Round 4
Charity
Canopy Housing Project Ltd
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Leeds
Grant award
£200,000
Project Name
Canopy Community Retrofit

The project will retrofit empty homes with teams of local volunteers, and homeless people who then will move into the homes on completion. Canopy Community Retrofit will combine its ‘self-help’ housing model, community volunteering programme, and commitment to bio-based materials, to engage some of the most disadvantaged, isolated people in Leeds in practical climate action.

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