Our Local Energy Advice Demonstrator scheme will provide you with a clear home energy plan - showing you how to make improvements to your home to reduce energy use.
Where is the Local Energy Advice Demonstrator scheme available?
The scheme is currently being delivered to certain neighbourhoods within North Yorkshire:
- Great Ayton
- Greatwood, Skipton
- Harrogate including:
- Harlow and St Georges
- Oatlands and Pannal
- The Stray, Woodlands and Hookstone
- Stokesley and villages, including:
- East Harlsey
- East Rounton
- Great and Little Broughton
- Hutton Rudby
- Ingleby Arncliffe
- Ingleby Greenhow
- Kirkby
- Middle-on-leven
- Sexhow
- Seamer
- Skutterskelfe
- Pickering
- Potto
- West Selby
What will the home energy plan include?
Households in these areas will be offered a home survey and a free home energy plan which will include:
- an insight into the energy efficiency and condition of your home, including the existing ventilation
- a discussion of your priorities around home retrofitting
- specialised software to calculate how to make the most effective changes which will result in savings for you
- estimated installation costs and ways you can improve your EPC rating
- estimated energy saving
- information on the different technologies available to make your home more energy efficient such as solar panels, cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, low carbon heating and low energy lightbulbs
- retrofit design specifications (where applicable)
As part of the survey, a Retrofit Co-ordinator will identify your home retrofit priorities and advise on how you can progress your home energy plan further if you wish to.
The plan will provide you with information that will enable you to choose the most cost-effective way to make the necessary improvements outlined in your plan. You may be eligible for further funding to help you pay for retrofitting; the retrofit assessor will discuss these with you.
Who can benefit from the Local Energy Advice Demonstrator scheme?
To benefit from this scheme, you must:
- live in one of the neighbourhoods listed above
- be a homeowner, private tenant, landlord or a shared owner of your property
- have a property with four bedrooms or less
- have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of D or below
If you are not eligible for this scheme, do not worry, as you could be eligible for another scheme. Our website has more information about the different energy schemes available.
Register your interest
Great Ayton/Selby/Stokesley area
We have had a great amount of interest in our scheme around Selby, Harrogate Great Ayton, Stokesley and the surrounding village areas. Due to limited funding we have now reached capacity in these areas. If you have already registered your interest our team will be in touch soon with further updates.
To keep up to date on future schemes, please visit our energy efficiency advice page.
Other areas
Use our online form to check your eligibility and apply for a home energy plan. Please note this scheme has limited availability within each area.
Register your interest in a home energy plan
What to expect at your property assessment
After completing the online form, you will receive a pre-assessment questionnaire from Align Property Partners. This will help the assessors better understand your home to produce an accurate and efficient assessment. Upon completing the questionnaire, an assessor will contact you to discuss your application and schedule an appointment for a property assessment. The assessment will take place during business hours between Monday and Friday.
Come and meet the team
There are currently no drop in events scheduled.
Our project partners
This scheme is delivered in partnership with Align Property Partners, Climate Action Stokesley and Villages, Zero Carbon Harrogate, the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and Net Zero’s North East and Yorkshire Hub.
This project is funded by Tees Valley Combined Authority and the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Further information
For further details about the scheme please contact us.
Free builder retrofit training
As part of the Local Energy Advice Demonstrator project, we are delivering free retrofit training to builders across North Yorkshire.
We will be delivering the training in three hands-on workshops, focusing on the critical role of airtightness in modern building practices that will shape house building and renovation well into the future.
The workshop will cover:
- why buildings need to be more airtight
- condensation risk
- airtightness and ventilation
- how to build an airtight structure
- retrofitting airtightness
- breathability
- specifying the correct product(s)
- case studies
By attending you will gain practical experience with membranes, tapes, airtight components, and tools, and learn expert techniques and troubleshooting tips from industry experts.
This workshop takes place on:
- 6 September, from 8am to 12.30pm, at Harrogate Rugby Club, Rudding Lane, Harrogate HG3 1DQ
Book your place for the Harrogate workshop online.
- 4 October, from 8am to 12.30pm, at The Regen Centre, Riccall, Landing Lane, Riccall YO19 6PW.
Book your place for the Riccall workshop online.
- 8 November, from 8am to 12pm, at Hutton Rudby Village Hall, Enterpen, Hutton Rudby TS15 0EJ.
Book your place for the Hutton Rudby workshop online.
The training is being delivered by North Yorkshire Council, Zero Carbon Harrogate and Partel who is a leading provider of innovative building solutions, focusing on vapour control layers and breathable membrane systems. Dedicated to revolutionising the construction industry; providing cutting-edge technology and expertise to improve building performance while prioritising sustainability.
Building Airtightness Webinars
Join our Local Energy Advice Demonstrator programme retrofit series of training on airtightness, insulation, and ventilation. We are offering the following webinars free of charge to existing building trade professionals. These insightful webinars are delivered by Diane Hubbard, a leading airtightness specialist in the UK and Director of Green Footsteps Ltd. Diane is also a certified Passivhaus Consultant and Tradesperson working on both domestic and commercial new builds as well as retrofits. This is your opportunity to gain a greater understanding of this crucial and fast-developing part of building regulations.
Building Airtightness Basics (one-hour online event)
Date: 17 September
Time: 5.00pm to 6.00pm
In this webinar, suitable for builders new to airtightness, you will cover the following aspects of building airtightness, giving you a good introduction to the subject. A question and answer session is available at the end of the webinar.
- why airtightness is important
- quantification
- benchmarks
- how to achieve airtightness with retrofits
Book your place on the Building Airtightness Basics webinar here.
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Practical Retrofit Airtightness for Builders (one-hour online event)
Date: 25 September
Time: 5.00pm to 6.00pm
The practical retrofit airtightness webinar for builders assumes an existing knowledge of building airtightness, going further into the detail. A question and answer session is available at the end of the webinar.
- what is an airtightness test?
- explaining the numbers
- when to test
- preparing for a test
Book your place on the Practical Retrofit Airtightness webinar here.