Enabling the area based delivery of low carbon heat
ALPHA
Clean heat neighbourhoods
What if switching to low-carbon heating was as simple as signing up to a scheme focused on your neighbourhood? Instead of each household doing their own research, figuring out the right technology, and finding the right installer, what if this was all sorted out by the people running a local scheme?
We think that the UK should implement a more coordinated strategy to create clean heat neighbourhoods, facilitating the transition of multiple households within a specific geographic area - be it a street, neighbourhood, or larger region - to low-carbon heating systems.
What are clean heat neighbourhoods?
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A playbook for local authorities
Working with local authorities, Nesta designed the clean heat neighbourhoods Playbook to support local government and their partners plan, coordinate and deliver area-based low-carbon heating.
Build practical capability
Provide usable tools, frameworks and guidance to help local areas design and deliver area-based clean heat schemes.
Share real-world learnings
Highlight examples where coordinated approaches are already working, sharing insights, challenges and transferable lessons.
Support collaboration
Bring together local authorities, delivery partners and innovators to test ideas, refine models and adapt methodologies for different contexts.
Where would you like to start
What do we mean by clean heat neighbourhoods?
Planning a clean heat transition for a local area
Creating a stakeholder plan
Communicating with households
Developing delivery models (coming soon)
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