Community Energy England and Carbon Coop have joined forces to bring you a full day of workshops and presentation from industry experts and practitioners in energy efficiency and domestic retrofit.
The event is focused on practical skills to enable Community Energy organisations and partners to initiate, improve and extend energy efficiency services in their area.
It is focussed on practical skills and applied experience. The day will cover topics such as:
- Assessment methodologies
- Design as a process
- Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
- Procurement
- Policy
- Financing energy efficiency
Timetable
10.30am Welcome!
Phil Beardmore
10.40am-11.30am Panel discussion
Community Energy and energy efficiency: opportunities and pitfalls
Jonathan Atkinson, Carbon Co-op, Kayla Ente, BHESCo, Russel Smith Retrofit Works
Session 1: 11.30am-12.30pmRoom 1 Carrying out home assessments, energy checks
- Assessments, finding the right tool for the job – pros and cons of methodologies
- Home energy checks, static and dynamic modelling - finding the right tool for the right job
- rdSAP, full SAP, PHPP etc
- Sharing experiences of assessments
Speakers: Carlos Alonso Gabizón, Carbon Co-op/OpenEnergyMonitor
Room 2 Financing energy efficiency
- Evaluating finance products including: grants, consumer loans, Mortgages and borrowing
- ECO and other incentives
- Consumer Credit
- Options for community finance
Speakers: Kayla Ente, BHESCO, Jon Lee, Ecology Building Society
Lunch 12.30-1.15pm
Room 1: Lunchtime briefing
Graham Ayling, Energy Savings Trust on Energy Redress Scheme funding for Community Energy groups
Session 2: 1.15-2.15pm
Room 1 Quality, ambition and risks of energy efficiency
- Importance of design: expertise, knowledge
- Dealing with Risk: addressing and avoiding the Performance Gap
- Whole House versus single measures
- Role of professionals, working with architects
Speakers: Marianne Heaslip, URBED, Kate De Selincourt, author, Tina Holt, AECB
Room 2 Energy efficiency in the community – tackling fuel poverty, community buildings
- Which measures are effective?
- Local authority collaborations
- Funding opportunities
Speakers: Aneaka Kellay, Carbon Co-op
Break - 2.15 - 2.30pm
Session 3: 2.30-3.30pm
Room 1 - Procuring and working with contractors and builders
- Dealing with contractors
- Contracting options, balancing risks
- The roles Community Energy Groups can play in retrofit
- Setting appropriate expectations for community energy groups
- Frameworks, contractor co-ops etc
Speakers: Russel Smith, Retrofit Works, Rebecca Ince, Birmingham University, Bill Butcher, Green Building Store
Room 2 Innovation in retrofit
- Aggregator/ESCOs
- Energy Service contracts
- Off site build
- New technology integration
Speakers: Ben Aylott, Carbon Coop and Rosemary Coyne, Energiesprong
3.30-4.30pm Panel discussion
Government policy - where next for energy efficiency?
- Green Deal, Each Home Counts and beyond
- Future BEIS policy development
- Opportunities for City Region collaborations
Speakers: Graham Ayling, EST, Emma Bridge, Community Energy England
4.30 Ends
Registration from 10AM. The event starts at 10.30AM
Sponsorship opportunities are available for this event. Please email j.hall@communityenergyengland.org for more info.