Community Energy Plus - Low Carbon Community Heat (GB-CHC-1087053-006b000000Q7MKx)

The project will develop, test and promote a new business model for increasing the accessibility and benefits of low carbon heat in rural communities. It will focus on heat pumps as the main low carbon heat solution for off-gas communities and how issues around affordability, social inclusion and fuel poverty can be addressed through business models involving collective ownership, collective procurement and the establishment of local revolving funds. A pilot community-owned heat pump test case project will be implemented to prove the business case needed to stimulate wider roll out and support the community energy sector to transition into the heat market.