Name

Developer / Author

Type of Resource

Guides for local authorities and partners

Tackling fuel poverty through local leadership

Local Government Association

Guide for local authorities, with case studies

Developing your comprehensive community engagement strategy

Improvement and Development Agency for local government, Urban Forum and the National Association for Voluntary, and

Community Action

Guide for local strategic partnerships

Not another consultation! Making community engagement informal and fun

Involve, on behalf of Local Government Improvement and Development’s Healthy Communities Programme

Guide for local government practitioners

UK District Energy Association

Website with guidance and information (membership required for access to parts of the site)

Website

District Heating Good Practice Guide

The Homes and Communities Agency

Guide based on 13 case studies of district heating projects implemented by local councils

Heat Networks Delivery Unit

DECC

Information for local authorities

Resources for communities

The Source

Collated by the Centre for Sustainable Energy

Collection of resources for communities taking action on energy

Behaviour Change

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Detailed principles and resources on behaviour change related to health

The National Heat Map

Centre for Sustainable Energy for DECC

Map showing density of heat demand across England

Water Source Heat Map

DECC

Report showing high level

assessment of around 40 urban rivers with the highest

potential for water source heat pump deployment for heating and cooling purposes.

Plan Local

CSE

Resources for community groups

Community and Renewable Energy Scheme

Local Energy Scotland

Guide for community groups in Scotland

Ynni’r Fro

Energy Saving Trust

Guide for community energy projects in Wales

Rural Community Energy Fund

WRAP

Guide for community groups in rural areas of England

Urban Community Energy Fund

DECC

Guide for community groups in urban areas of England

Simple guides to policies and programmes

Winter Fuel Payments

DECC

Guide for consumers

Cold Weather Payments

DECC

Guide for consumers

Warm Home Discount Scheme

DECC

Guide for consumers

Feed In Tariff

DECC

Guide for consumers

Renewable Heat Incentive

Ofgem

Guide for consumers

The Energy Company Obligation

DECC's

Guide for consumers

Green Deal

DECC

Guide for consumers

Energy Best Deal

Citizens Advice

Overview of the Energy Best Deal programme

Statistics

UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Statistics

DECC

National statistics

Fuel poverty detailed tables (2013)

DECC

Data tables

English Indices of Deprivation (2015)

Department for Communities and Local Government

Data tables

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2012)

Scottish Government

Data tables

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (2014)

Welsh Government

Data tables

Name

Developer / Author

Type of Resource

Ofgem's Consumer Vulnerability Strategy

Ofgem

Strategy

DECC Community Energy Strategy

DECC

Strategy (also has case studies)

Cutting the cost of keeping warm. A new fuel poverty strategy for England

DECC

Strategy

Distribution of Carbon Emissions in the UK: Implications for Domestic Energy Policy

Preston, I., White, V., Thumim, J., Bridgeman, T., and Brand, C (2013)

Report

A Definition of Poverty

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Report

Climate Change and Social Justice: An Evidence Review

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Evidence review

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2013

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Report

5 facts about household energy spending in the UK 2002-2012

Office for National Statistics

Report

Integrating Behaviour Change in Low Carbon Housing Retrofit

LCEA Behaviour Change Retrofit Group

Report from a Housing Retrofit Programme in Greater Manchester

Addressing the Poverty Premium: Approaches to regulation

Hirsch, D. (2013)

Report

Fuel and poverty: A Rapid Evidence Assessment for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,

Preston, I., White, V., Blacklaws, K. (2014)

Report

Energy prices and bills - impacts of meeting carbon budgets

Committee on Climate Change

Report

Estimated impacts of energy and climate change policies on energy prices and bills

DECC

Report

The distribution of total embodied greenhouse gas emissions by households in the UK, and some implications for social policy.

Gough, Ian, Abdallah, Saamah, Johnson, Viki, Ryan-Collins, Josh and Smith, Cindy (2011)

Report

Name

Developer / Author

Type of Resource

Repowering London

Repowering London

Example

Less is More

Centre for Sustainable Energy

Example

Ashton Hayes

Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral

Example

Cornwall Together

Eden Project

Case study

District heating

Cogenco

Case study

Manchester Carbon Coop

Society for the Reduction of Carbon Limited

Case study

Low Carbon Communities Challenge

DECC

Evaluation report

Helping Customers Switch: Collective Switching and Beyond

DECC

Evaluation report

Bath and West Community Energy

Transition Bath Energy Group and Transition Corsham

website

Plymouth Energy Community (PEC)

Plymouth City Council (PCC)

website

Exeter Community Energy (ECOE)

Transition Exeter

website