Held at the Ricoh Arena Coventry on 7 October 2014 By Don Leiper Director New Business EON Energy Solutions amp Paul Maplethorpe National Chair of the Carbon Action Network Carbon Acton Network ID: 513777
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Presented at the CAN National Training-Day Conference
Held at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 7 October 2014By Don Leiper - Director, New Business, E.ON Energy Solutions & Paul Maplethorpe - National Chair of the Carbon Action Network
Carbon Acton Network
Awards
2014Slide2
East Midlands CAN Award Winner
Electric Corby Community Energy
Collecting Award:
Sara Earl
Electric Corby is a Community Interest Company formed with the support of the Borough
Council,
to establish Corby as the UK’s leading practical,
community-scale
test centre for future low carbon living and
transportation,
and
to redistribute
the benefits of its labours to the Corby community.
Having
a fair,
low-price
,
100%-green
offer was a priority to CBC and EC when researching an energy switching tariff for the community. Partnering with Green Energy UK, ECCE is able to
offer
a
same-price tariff,
however the customer pays,
two
simple tariffs and a cash back to the customer and Corby community projects.
The scheme was launched at CBC’s Fuel Poverty Summit, and a ‘Power to the People’ rally through the Town Centre. Since the
launch,
ECCE ‘community dome’ has visited various local festivals, regular Corby Radio energy
call-in
‘surgeries’, vulnerable peoples events with the NHS, and Corby Voluntary Community Service DECC
Big
Energy Savers
Scheme. ECCE have found a better energy offer for the people of Corby and have launched a Community Energy 4% switching rate in 2013/14.
Other Nominees:
Nick Bolton and Duncan LucasSlide3
East Pennine CAN Award
WinnerJane Mears East Riding Council
Collecting Award: Paul MaplethorpeJane has undertaken a number of air source heating projects for private landlords in her East Riding Council
area over the past few years.Slide4
London
Borough of Hillingdon
In 2013,
London Borough of Hillingdon
set out to deliver a
large-scale
solid wall insulation (SWI) scheme to private sector households. The scheme was the first of its kind in London and delivered SWI to 135 homes in the space of just a few months.
Hillingdon
provided £100,000 worth of funding towards the cost of works and secured
around £800,000 worth of ECO funding towards solid wall insulation. SWI was delivered through the Council’s Warm and Cozy scheme and the works were carried out by Dyson Energy Services. Through the scheme, the Council also offered householders a range of additional measures such as HHCRO funded boilers, loft and cavity wall insulation and referrals to a wide range of services for support. In total, the Council had over 300 enquiries about SWI but could not continue the scheme following the announcement of the changes to ECO and the drastic drop in funding for SWI. However, the London Borough of Hillingdon has now secured further funding through the Green Deal Communities Funding. With this funding they plan to follow up on existing enquiries and aim to deliver a further 600 solid wall installations in the borough.
London
HECA
Award
Winner
Jo
GillSlide5
Collecting Award:
Jonathan
Collins
Electricity
North West are the
region’s
Electricity Distribution Network
Operator. In
January
2014,
they took a step into helping their customers who may be suffering from the effects of fuel poverty. Despite the barriers, Electricity North West developed the Power Saver Challenge, uniquely combining a carbon-saving, behavioural-change program with a fuel-poverty program. A pilot scheme directly targeting over 1,000 properties within the Stockport Area, with a 50/50 split between affluent and priority neighbourhoods, the team are tasked with signing up residents and supporting them to reduce their electricity consumption over the next winter period. Each household is a member of a team and, should the team be successful in making a significant reduction, those signed up will receive a reward, which will comprise of an A-rated appliance or the resident may choose to donate this into a community project.
Each
household registered also receives a range of energy saving gadgets to help them to save electricity and money.
North West CAN Award
Winner
Electricity North WestSlide6
Carol has unstintingly applied herself to formulating schemes and working tirelessly for the people of Gosport and the wider region but the last year has been particularly busy and challenging for her. Carol has taken a leading role in the successful Green Deal Communities bid made by Gosport, Eastleigh, Portsmouth and Southampton, and has played a major part in shaping that scheme and finding ways to adapt it following Government policy changes, to maintain its original aim. Carol was instrumental in ensuring that Gosport was well prepared for this scheme, by identifying properties which may benefit from such a scheme well before the bid was finalised, thus meaning that Gosport were “at the front of the queue”, and well prepared, despite being the smallest LA in Hampshire.
She has also taken a leading role in the acclaimed “Hitting the Cold Spots” scheme which is run by Hampshire County Council, and was largely modelled on Gosport’s own “Help is on Hand” scheme, helping to bring warmth to struggling households within Hampshire who have suffered heating failures and who do not have the resources to resolve them.
South East CAN Award
Winner
Carol
White
Gosport
Borough CouncilSlide7
The
Swindon Safe & Warm scheme
used an
area-based
approach to tackle fuel
poverty,
whilst introducing support and advice for vulnerable people at risk of falls or fires in the home
.
Safe & Warm provided one simple point of access into multiple services to make some of the most vulnerable people warmer and safer in their homes. Integrating a series of health-focussed campaigns via GP surgeries and pharmacies maximised the reach of this programme. By the end of 2014, almost
17,000 households
had engaged with the scheme, generating some 37,000 actions. This included installing over £650,000 of insulation measures and identifying over £2.6 million in unclaimed benefits through its income maximisation service. One in three households had advice or support to reduce the risk of a fall, with £27,000 of funding provided for small practical measures, potentially saving the significantly higher costs to the NHS of fall-related treatment. A further 3,500 fire safety measures were funded through Safe & Warm.With the area-based approach completed, the scheme is moving into a new phase of engagement with public health and increasing partner referrals into the programme.South West CAN Award
Winners
David Miles & Alison RobinsonSlide8
Act on Energy
Rachel
has worked tirelessly over several years to support local authorities in the West
Midlands, taking
on the Regional Chair of West Midlands CAN, supporting
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sub-regional local authorities in delivering their obligations under the updated Home Energy Conservation Act and providing individual support to specific local authorities in planning and organising their Green Deal and ECO arrangements.
Although
Rachel is actually employed by Act on Energy (a local energy saving charity), she has voluntarily taken on the role of supporting all of the regional LAs through chairmanship of
West Midlands CAN.
Many of the LAs in the sub region, to whom she delivers specific support services, rely heavily on her extensive knowledge of affordable warmth and energy conservation issues.During 2012-13, she has directly assisted Worcestershire County Council in building a successful DECC funding bid and delivering its outcomes. She has also dedicated several days each week to the Council from an already busy work load, when they failed to recruit a suitable candidate to manage their Green Deal program. Following on from that, she agreed to provide increased support to Redditch and Bromsgrove Councils when their Energy Conservation Officer left.
West Midlands
CAN Award
Winner
Rachel JonesSlide9
Brenda
is widely viewed as one of the most experienced in her field and was awarded an MBE in 1998 for her work on energy efficiency and received the Energy Institute’s
Melchett
Medal
in the same year.
Brenda is an
Emeritus
Fellow at the
Environmental Change Institute, University of
Oxford, following her retirement in September 2008. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. At the ECI, Brenda was the former head of the Lower Carbon Futures Team and a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Team. Her main research focus is on energy efficiency and the way that energy is used in British homes, particularly by households in fuel poverty.The “10% definition” of fuel poverty, that a household is fuel poor if it needs to spend more than 10% of its income to maintain an adequate level of heating, was first established by Brenda in her book entitled Fuel Poverty, first published in 1991.In November 2007, she wrote Home Truths: a low-carbon strategy to reduce UK housing emissions by 80% by 2050, for Friends of the Earth and the Co-op Bank, and she published her second book, Fixing Fuel Poverty - challenges and solutions, with
Earthscan
, in early 2010.Brenda’s
enthusiasm and support for the carbon saving and fuel poverty agenda is second to
none and her
understanding and forward thinking
is an
inspirational to
all.
Other
Nominees:
Colin Anderson, David Colbourne and Janet Rudge
Lifetime Achievement
Award
Dr Brenda Boardman MBE