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Neighbourhood hub evening courses for retrofit literacy and readiness. Using thermal cameras aided workshops to allow residents and business owners to see their building in a new light, triggering converstaions around how heat and mositure moves through buildings. Bid Guidance Doc
A Third-party Watchdog and Advocate Service for local funded domestic retrofit work in hard to treat homes. (ECO 4) Having local Non-profit retrofit professionals involved to provide an informed presence to give the resident peace of mind by holding installers to a minimum standard.
We want a system for proof of value of our work, a system of preformance data collection and processing tools to enable lower cost per outcome. This standardised system can be used to compare and contrast KPIs across different approaches to scalable domestic retrofit.
A ‘How to’ guide on all things DIY home energy effeciency heald in community spaces with install demonstations and oppourtunities for locals to try for themselves and practise so that they feel comfotable with the product and their abilities to the degree that the install it in thier home.
A study to gausge the evloving relationship between private protery sales and Energy Efferciency Measures (EEMs). The two main insights the study aims to find is EEM as a tool for wealth solidifcation and best pratice reagrding highlighting and selling EEMs. We need to know which EEM investments convert well into property value, making them less reliant on pay back periods which many owners don't have due to an intention to sell. We need to know how energy effecient homes can be priortised by the housing market.
2025 Warm Homes, Healthy Futures - National Energy Action - £33 681 - for energy advice, benefits checks and CO awareness for people with health conditions.
2012 Acker Site 10 kWh PV system - E.ON’s Sustainable Energy Fund - £20 000 for capital expenditure on PV power station.
2022-24 Local Area Energy Advice Demonstrator - Midlands Net Zero Hub, DESNZ - £35 000 for developing and exploring energy advice by community groups. Findings and outcomes - here.
All past share offers combined - £ 100 000
Solar PV Revenue since starting - £
How you measure success it is extremely important. This can not be understated!
We believe what matters most to get domestic retrofit happening more often is;
1) Ave pence/kWh price reduction and Total £ saved on bills per home per £ spent
2) Ave gCO2/kWh emission reduction and Total kgs of CO2 mitigated per home per £ spent
3) Hybrid finance - Strategic public funds use to stimulate private capital into action - public £ invested : private £ invested
4) Private capital solidification - Priortising retrofit actions that convert well to property value - £ invested : £ property value change
5) Reduction in annual days counted where home is deemed uncomfortable or unhealthy (internal temp and humidity)
6) M2 of roof, wall and floor insulation installed - kWh energy demand reduction
7) Qualitative community benefits score :
8) Qualitative homeowner benefits score :
We have an inhouse system that (through APIs) draws down data daily in half hour increments for client electricity and gas usage, variable tariff cost, carbon intensity of grid, internal temp and humidity, etc. We use this tool to track our success metrics.
At our core, we believe in energy systems that are locally owned, cooperatively run, non-profit and rooted in social justice. CEB’s purpose is to replace the top-down, profit-driven energy model with one that puts people and communities first; building a cleaner, fairer, and more resilient Birmingham.