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Essex County Council

… hybrid workstyles reducing energy usage and waste more comfortable workspaces prioritising staff health, safety and wellbeing 6 The Ways of Working programme is being undertaken in parallel with a property review. The final outcomes will frame future work in line with policy to make ECC estate net zero by 2030. 3.2. The Essex Pension Fund The Essex Pension Fund administered…

… Essex – should ensure their estates are net zero; all fuel poor homes should be retrofitted and supplied with affordable energy, and two thirds of all homes retrofitted to net zero. All retrofitting should include water as well as energy efficiency measures and a stronger policy on sustainable drainage should be supported. Action is also being taken to train the trainers, and support…

…- income households Advice and grant support to Essex households on low income or in fuel poverty and in poorly insulated homes to retrofit their home and improve its energy efficiency, lowering carbon emissions but also improving the living conditions, making the home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer and reducing energy bills. ECC received £776,000 in funding to support…

… thedevelopment of an advice website with Citizens Advice Essex. ECC delivered fuel poor grants totalling £0.8m. Between Feb-Aug 2021 a communications campaign to promote this £800k funding was completed, ensuring over 80 Essex homes benefited from up to £10k worth of free energy efficiency improvements The South East Energy Hub currently holds a further £5.2m in grant funds to support retrofitting fuel…

… better tracking of energy usage across the schools’ estate. To date, 125 maintained schools have a meter fitted: a further 47 are in train. By the end of 2021/22 we will have installed solar panels that will generate over ½ million kWh of energy - saving our schools £77,000 a year in energy costs. These high specification solar installations enable schools to track their energy usage…