Current Partnership Projects

Below is a list of all the project work that the Partnership is currently undertaking, together with a brief outline of the work.

Review and Strategy Formulation for Provision of Energy Saving Advice to Households and Communities

ICF International and Linden Consulting have been appointed as contractors for the above project.  This project, which began in mid September 2009, aims to assess the current state of energy advice provision in the UK, define the desired future state and identify and recommend strategic options for moving towards this.

A combination of desktop literature review, sample survey through telephone interviews and a one-day stakeholder workshop, held on 13 October 2009, were used to gather information and opinions. The key output of the project is a written report with recommendations designed to present a clear path forward for the provision of energy advice.

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Household Energy Efficiency Skills Project

ProEnviro has been appointed as contractor for the Household Energy Efficiency Skills project. This project seeks to identify opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the household energy-efficiency* skills delivery system.

This will be achieved through examination of written evidence and interviews/survey of key organisations to establish:

• current mechanisms for, and levels of, skills provision to the industry,
• current and future gaps in skills provision, and
• existing spatial examples of collaborative best-practice skills delivery partnerships (including those incorporating employer-led demand).

Strategic recommendations will be developed to improve the effectiveness of the skills delivery system and meet future needs. These will be tested at a stakeholder workshop event prior to finalisation. The project is due to completed for the end of March 2010.

*Household Energy Efficiency incorporates organisations involved in the following industries which will deliver improved household energy efficiency; heating, insulation, micro-generation, energy-efficiency advice, home energy assessment and low carbon refurbishment.

 

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A review of the delivery tools used to improve hard-to-treat homes

The Association for the Conservation of Energy is currently working with the EEPH on a review of the delivery tools used to improve hard to treat homes (HTTH).

The aim of the research is to produce a raft of informed policy recommendations to promote a significant scale up of the improvement of HTTH. These recommendations will form an agenda for action to guide the work of the Partnership’s HTTH sub-group.

The project involves an analysis of the measures that are needed to improve HTTH that are not at present being delivered at sufficient scale, the funding available now and in the near future and the delivery mechanisms, in the form of projects and programmes, that have been used to deliver HTT measures.