We want to work with 35 households per annum to help make their houses more energy efficient. We have enough households for this years’s pilot but would like to hear from you if you would be interested in volunteering in future years.
- red dots = households
- blue star = micro hydro and wind turbine
- yellow dots= PV roofs
We want the households to reflect the make-up of our community whether owned, private rented or social rented; whether houses or flats; and whether you are employed, self employed, retired or on benefits, old or young; single or a family.
The household strategy starts with the easy, cheap things you can do to cut down on energy and carbon to achieve a 10% reduction over the course of the pilot year. It finishes by helping households develop a longer term strategy to make major investments and achieve 80-90% savings in your energy use and carbon emissions.
Volunteer households get:
- Free expert help tailored to personal preferences and circumstances to help make savings on carbon dioxide emissions and energy bills
- A free Carbon Footprint for your whole lifestyle, and a free Energy Performance Certificate for your house
- Free Smart Meters to measure household energy consumption
- Access to a £250 grant to buy energy saving equipment or if time is constrained to use for child care or a cleaner
- Help to make grant applications to take advantage of free loft insulation and other offers
- An expert assessment of how your building might be developed to add value to it and help offset the cost of installing energy technologies
Volunteer households will also benefit from the knowledge that:
- Free expert help tailored to personal preferences and circumstances to help make savings on carbon dioxide emissions and energy bills
- A free Carbon Footprint for your whole lifestyle, and a free Energy Performance Certificate for your house
- Free Smart Meters to measure household energy consumption
To become a volunteer household you need to commit to:
- Willingness to spend time working with the project team over 6 months; including 4 half-day workshops; 2 one-to-one meetings with an expert; time spent making the agreed changes; monthly 2-hour review meeting
- Pledge to achieve 10% carbon reductions over the course of the year
- Willingness to have your energy use monitored, measured and shared with the rest of the pilot group
