ShARE (Sharing Action on Reducing Emissions)

Hard to treat homes

In February 2006, Conwy County Borough Council took the decision to make six hard to treat council properties highly energy efficient, incorporating innovative technologies that would be of benefit to the council, its tenants and the environment.

Hotspots

With its Hotspots project, CEN wanted to help households that used a lot of fuel make their homes more energy efficient. Above all, it aimed to promote the installation of appropriate measures to these ‘fuel-rich’ householders as cost-effectively as possible.

Making climate change a strategic priority

Through the Energy Saving Trust's local authority one-to-one support programme Daventry District Council developed a strategic approach to sustainable energy across all of its services and activities.

Better Behaving Boiler Scheme

The Better Behaving Boiler Scheme has brought warmth, comfort and cost savings to low-income households who didn’t qualify for government grants.

EcoTeams

This pilot project worked with 800 households in Nottinghamshire to help change their energy habits and make their homes more energy efficient.

Home Health Project

By offering free energy efficiency measures, the Home Health Project has improved living conditions for 2,392 deprived or vulnerable households across West Cornwall – most of them located through their GPs database.

Generation homes

Using renewable energy and a range of innovative measures, Drum Housing Association has transformed the energy efficiency of six ageing homes that were expensive and difficult to heat.

Filling the gaps to keep communities warm

The Northumberland Cavity Wall Project exceeded all its goals in an unusually remote and rural area. Offering free cavity wall insulation to private households, it has helped to insulate 50 per cent more than the number of homes originally planned.

Oxford Solar Initiative

In little more than two years, the Oxford Solar Initiative (OSI) helped to establish the city of Oxford as a leading user and supporter of solar energy technology.The OSI set about converting the 'good intentions' of households into real, energy-saving actions.

Making the most of One-to-one support

In January 2009 Bolsover District Council began working with the Energy Saving Trust. The Council wanted to gain an expert opinion on their climate change mitigation work to date, and also to develop a consultancy based action plan to help shape future work.

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council's Thermal Insulation Scheme

In 2003 KMBC were successful in obtaining CERT funding to set up a thermal insulation scheme. The initial scheme was in partnership with the utility Powergen (now Eon) the Knowsley Heat streets scheme.

Warm and Well in Derby Project

Warm and Well in Derby Project

The Warm and Well in Derby Project works with local organisations, groups and residents to make sure that people over 65 in Derby get home energy advice and information so that they can keep warm and well, and can afford to heat their homes. The Project is part of the Council’s and NHS Derby City’s emerging prevention and wellbeing strategy.

Energy Neighbourhoods

The Energy Neighbourhood project was a behavioural change initiative carried out across 9 European countries, which encouraged participants to reduce their household energy consumption by simply changing the way they did things around the home. Whilst the overall aim was to reduce individual household energy consumption, each household was part of a team, a neighbourhood.

Gloucestershire Warm & Well

The Gloucestershire Warm and Well scheme addresses the links between energy efficiency, affordable warmth, cold living conditions and health, such as cardiovascular illness and condensation damp related respiratory illness. Since the scheme began it has installed more than 47,000 measures, and improved over 26,000 homes.

Aberdeen City Council CHP district heating

Aberdeen City Council developed a strategic approach to combined heat and power (CHP) district heating for existing property upgrades.

Independent endorsement and support

Through the Energy Saving Trust's local authority one-to-one support programme Monmouthshire County Council developed a strategic approach to sustainable energy across all of its services and activities.

Coventry City Council Taking action

Through the Energy Saving Trust's local authority one-to-one support programme Coventry City Council developed a strategic approach to sustainable energy across all of its services and activities.

East Staffordshire Borough Council Taking Action

Through the Energy Saving Trust's local authority one-to-one support programme East Staffordshire Borough Council developed a strategic approach to sustainable energy across all of its services and activities.

Boston Mayflower

Boston Mayflower Limited is a Registered Social Landlord with a mixture of dwelling types dating from 1900 to present day.

This case study outlines the approach taken to alleviate fuel poverty from their housing stock.

Chelmer Housing Partnership

Chelmer Housing Partnership (CHP) is the largest registered social landlord in Essex with around 6,600 properties. This case study outlines measures taken to alleviate fuel poverty in existing housing stock.

Luton Borough Council Tackles Fuel Poverty

Luton Borough Council brings together a 'partnership approach' to address fuel poverty, linking the fuel poverty strategy to other corporagte strategies across the council. NHER software was used to profile social housing stock.

Affordable Warmth in East Riding of Yorkshire

The Local Authority instigated the 'Affordable Warmth Strategy' for the region, using a cross partnership approach taking in all housing sectors.

Penwith Housing Association Environmental and Energy Policy

Penwith Housing Association's 'Environmental & Energy Policy' is linked to the rest of their corporate strategy, as is their Action Plan. Cross sector partnership working has resulted in capital and revenue funding.

Trent & Dove Housing Ltd Affordable Warmth Strategy

Trent & Dove Housing Limited use computer software as a means to target, monitor and review its activities to allieviate fuel poverty in its housing stock.

Cardiff Council instigates Affordable Warmth

Cardiff council instigated the 'Affordable Warmth' strategy for the region of Cardiff, developing the strategy using a cross partnership approach.

Developing a Fuel Poverty Strategy

Drum Housing partners up with two local authorities to develop a joint Fuel Poverty Strategy and their 'Affordable Warmth Guide'.

Authorities Join Forces for Affordable Warmth

Seven 'energy conservation authorities' join forces to develop an Affordable Warmth Strategy.

Addressing Fuel Poverty in Nottinghamshire

A strategy focusing on dwellings that fit into 'vulnerable' categories by raising awareness, targeting vulnerable persons and identifying at risk homes.

Targeting, monitoring and reviewing fuel poverty activities

Stevenage Borough Council use the computer software 'Environmental Matrix for Housing' reported through their 'Affordable Warmth and Fuel Poverty Strategy as a means to target, monitor and review its activities.

West Mercia Housing Group

West Mercia Housing Group run their 'Affordable Warmth and Fuel Poverty Strategy' alongside computer software 'Environmental Matrix for Housing'

Gwynedd Council ‘Here to Help’ Insulation Scheme

Gwynedd Council and British Gas agreed to jointly fund a Public Sector Housing “Here to Help”
insulation scheme for the 6000 houses owned by the local authority.

Stroud District Council Ground Source Heat Pumps

Stroud District Council (SDC) succesfully piloted new hot water and central heating systems in their properties using ground source heat pumps.

Comparative Study: Fuel Poverty in Social Housing

A review of twelve social housing providers (local authorities and registered social landlords) across England
and Wales, demonstrating what good practice is taking place in the UK.

Northwards Housing cuts carbon emissions

Northwards Housing has gone much further than the minumum energy efficiency standard required by Decent Homes, and as a result has cut carbon emissions and fuel poverty.