People Powered Retrofit - a neighbourhood model for new retrofit markets

23/06/2020 2pm - 3pm

Introducing People Powered Retrofit, the end-to-end whole house, energy efficiency service for able-to-pay householders, this webinar held in collaboration between Carbon Coop and CLES is for Community Energy groups, local authorities and policy makers. Organised as part of Community Energy Fortnight. Register for this free event here.

Part of BEIS’ Retrofit Supply Chain pilot programme, People Powered Retrofit is an end-to-end whole house, energy efficiency service for able-to-pay householders.

The model is based on ‘community-based social marketing’ utilising trusted intermediaries and institutions to engage householders, and a local economic development approach, building on existing, local capacity to upskill supply chain companies.

Now operating in its pilot phase, People Powered Retrofit has attracted significant interest from local authorities and Community Energy groups seeking to instigate new local markets for retrofit which build community capacity and wealth instead of utilising now discredited outsourcing approaches.

In this webinar, Marianne Heaslip (architect) and Jonathan Atkinson (project manager) outline core elements of model, key learning from the past 12 months of piloting and potential for replication in other parts of the UK. They are joined by Senior Researcher at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), Jonty Leibowitz who provides a local economic development perspective and the relevance of such models to emerging Green Recovery plans.

Find out more and register here.