News From Creating Excellence: Low Carbon Communities Challenge

The findings from the Big Energy Shift public dialogue suggest that households could benefit significantly from joined-up ‘packages' of support, delivered locally in the community, to help them reduce home energy consumption and make deep cuts in their carbon emissions.

Such packages could include, for example, smart meters, home energy audits, access to local demonstration homes, leadership from local schools, businesses and public buildings, and more hands-on support navigating advice and determining which energy efficiency measures and renewable technologies are right for them.

The Department believes that this type of integrated approach, involving technological solutions alongside community and household-level behaviour change, and delivered via new collaborations between local public, private and third sector organisations, will be critical to achieving the carbon emission cuts needed. However, as yet there is no blueprint for effective action or clear sense of how much can be achieved through this route - hence the Challenge, which is designed to test the success of different plans.

The Challenge will allow the experiences of people living and working in communities that take part to be shared publicly, along with the quantitative data on carbon and energy savings.

The information will be used to offer continuous learning and improvement, and the lessons learned will be made available to other communities across the country. The learning will also inform government's wider delivery plans on energy and climate change.

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