Selected resources to help you with your community energy project.
Our learning webinars
Eco retrofitting buildings
Feb 2024
- Improving energy efficiency in listed buildings, Jonathan Ashe, JA Architects
- Sustainable retrofits in Kensington & Chelsea, Sarah Buckingham, RBKC
- Green Heritage Homes – Bath, Sara Grimes, Bath & West Community Energy
Flexibility electricity tariffs
Jan 2024
- Residential customers
- Commercial customers
- ECO4 Funding for retrofits
Emily Fletcher, Kevin Thomas, Max Laker, Becki Pinchback from Octopus Energy
Wind energy for local people
Oct 2023
- A locally owned wind project, Pete West, Bridport Community Energy
- Onshore wind in 2023, Neil Best, Centre for Sustainable Energy
- How to fund your onshore wind project, Monika Paplaczyk, Thrive Renewables
Reports and briefings
- Community Energy State of the Sector 2024
- Energy Cafes and how they might be used in tackling fuel poverty, by the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED), University of Sussex
- Top 10 tips to Getting Started in Community Energy – CES & CEE 2022
Podcasts and articles
- Decarbonising heat is difficult… but a Sussex village could hold the key – Future Net Zero podcast with Ollie Pendered (CEP) & Ashita Anand (UKPN) talk CommuniHeat
- The Energy Revolution Starts at Home – Co-Founder of EcoPower, Dirk Vansintjan advises communities on achieving energy democracy
Presentations
- Pathways to Employment in Community Energy workshop presented at CEE Conference 2023
Tools
- Impact Tool – a digital visualisation tool that helps you understand your community’s carbon footprint
- Carbon and Place – free tools to allow communities, planners, and policymakers in the UK to understand their local carbon footprint