The Bath & North East Somerset Energy at Home Scheme aims to cut carbon emissions, reduce fuel poverty, improve health, and boost the local economy. It provides residents with affordable energy efficiency improvements like insulation, achieving warmer homes, lower bills, and job opportunities. The partnership involves the council, advice service, and installation providers. Residents receive guidance to finance and install measures like insulation. Over 700 inquiries have been made so far. The program also supports local trades through training, certification, and membership subsidies.

1. Bath & North East Somerset’s
Energy at Home Scheme
Marion Britton, Energy at Home
Project Manager

2. Helping residents in Bath & North East Somerset
make energy saving improvements to their
homes and to the way they use their homes

3. The Council’s strategic aims
• cut carbon emissions
• reduce fuel poverty
• cut the health cost of cold homes
• strengthen the local economy

4. What are the benefits for residents?
• warmer & more comfortable homes
• healthier homes
• cheaper energy bills
• improved property values
• local job opportunities

5. Bath & North East Somerset
Energy at Home Partnership

6. Delivery partners & roles
Advice Service Retrofit Delivery
Provider
Bath & North East
Somerset Council
• Promotion &
marketing
• Advice, information &
guidance
• Follow up & aftercare
• Arranging finance
(grants or loans)
• Project managing and
delivering installations
• Project management
• Community marketing
• SME support

7. Finding out
about the
scheme
Talking it
through
with an
advisor
Getting an
assessment
Making
choices
Arranging
finance
Arranging
installation
Accessing
aftercare
The Customer Journey
Bath & North East Somerset Energy at Home

8. Advice Service Retrofit Delivery Provider
The Centre for
Sustainable Energy
Eco Residential
& Anesco
& sub-contractors

9. Stakeholder Forum
Public Interest
• 783 enquiries by telephone from 361 unique callers
• 3,375 views of the new Energy at Home website
• 220 households have requested grant application
packs
• 130 households have had a home energy assessment

10. Stakeholder Forum
Energy at Home Trade Support
• Subsidies for:
• Training
• Green Deal Accreditation
• Buy with Confidence membership
• Funding for networking events

11. Stakeholder Forum
Green Deal mentoring and Certification
• Green Deal Certification* -
Normal price £696 Energy at Home price £348
• Green Deal Certification*, QMS system and mentoring –
Normal price £1,464 Energy at Home price £702
* Energy at Home will only fund the first ‘set’ of measures for GDI Certification. One ‘set’ would
include Insulation, gas and oil heating or electrical fittings.

12. Stakeholder Forum
Buy with Confidence
Buy with Confidence is the recommended list of approved
installers from the Bath & North East SomersetTrading Standards
team.
Size of company Normal
membership cost
Our membership
cost
1-5 employees £75 £37
5-15 employees £150 £75
16+ employees £225 £112

13. Stakeholder Forum
Green SkillsAcademy – 50%+ discount
• Fundamental Principles of RenewableTechnologies (June
2015)
• Solar PV (June 2015)
• SolarThermal (June 2015)
• Repair and Retrofit of Sliding Sash Windows (Sat 28th March)

14. Stakeholder Forum
Questions & further contact
• website: www.energyathome.org.uk/trade-support
• email: tradesupport@energyathome.org.uk
• telephone: 0800 038 5688
open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

15. £723,000
• Up to £7,000 for solid wall insulation
• Up to £3,000 for other measures
Up to £7,000 per household if combined
Must be used when combined with Green Deal
Finance / equivalent self-financed
Open to home owners / private tenants / private landlords
And finally… the Council’s Green Deal Top Up Grant