Local Energy Advice Demonstrators
The North West Net Zero Hub is providing £4.27 million Local Energy Advice Demonstrators (LEAD) funding to innovative projects piloting new approaches to providing local in-person energy advice.
LEAD funding will support 7 different energy advice projects across the North West of England. The programme will run from Summer 2023 until March 2025.
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Cumbria Action for Sustainability (Summary)
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Energy Projects Plus (Summary)
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Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Summmary)
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Groundwork (Summary)
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Pure Leapfrog (Summary)
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Rossendale Valley Energy. (Summary)
local energy advice demonstrators programme
For more details on the national scheme – Bespoke energy advice to help thousands of hard-to-reach households save on bills
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The North West Net Zero Hub is working with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the four other Net Zero Hubs to deliver a Local Energy Advice Demonstrator programme that will fund innovative projects piloting new approaches to providing local in-person energy advice.
The programme will provide funding of up to £2m to individual projects that can be delivered over the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 financial years. The aim of the local energy advice pilots is to test various approaches to delivering in-person advice, with a particular focus on harder-to-treat properties and digitally excluded consumer groups.
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Hard-to-treat buildings – the UK has the oldest building stock in Europe. In-person visits can better capture the complexities of these building types, which are harder to address through digital and telephone advice.
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Hard-to-reach consumers – local, in-person advice may extend the service to certain consumer types e.g., the elderly, disengaged, those with limited internet access, minority ethnic groups, etc.
The pilots form part of the multi-channel home energy advice service being developed by Department for Energy Security and Net Zero which also includes a new energy retrofit advice service on GOV.UK to help people better understand how to make energy efficiency improvements to their home, and the upcoming launch of a free retrofit phoneline service.