Local Energy Advice Demonstrator
Local Energy Advice Demonstrator Programme
The NEY 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.
- 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.
- 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.
The programme opened to applications on 17th March 2023, with a deadline for returning completed applications to the Net Zero Hub by 21st April 2023. All programme documentation can be accessed below:
The Net Zero Hub has hosted a series of free webinars for organisations that may be interested in bidding to deliver a project. The slides from the webinar held on 27th March 2023 can be viewed here: Local Energy Advice Demonstrator Briefing Slides. The recording of the webinar is also available at the following link: Local Energy Advice Demonstrator – Webinar – YouTube
