Highland Energy Community Partnership

*January 2025

Project Background

The Highland Energy Community Partnership (HECP) is a new programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and coordinated by environmental charity Changeworks, in partnership with six local community partners in the Highlands, including Transition Black Isle. 

The project will build collaboration across the partnership and beyond, aiming to improve domestic energy efficiency, reduce emissions across the households in the partnership and build a movement towards more 
sustainable consumption, consistent with a Net Zero future.  It will operate across the following key outcomes: 

1. Promote environmentally friendly energy use People will be supported in energy saving and home retrofit awareness, helping them to adopt environmentally friendly energy use behaviours
    
2. Support communities to retrofit their homes Over the five years and the whole partnership, nine hundred households will be empowered and supported to retrofit their homes 
    
3. Share learning that supports rural retrofit activity beyond project area The partnership will share learning across the Highland region and beyond to support the acceleration of rural retrofit across the UK.

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*28 May 2024

HECP funding bid submitted

Home Energy Scotland have submitted a funding bid to the National Lottery on behalf of the six member organisations of the Highland Energy Community partnership.  The bid is for a 5-year project 'establishing a blueprint for more, and better quality, home energy improvements in the Scottish Highlands.'

Follow the links for more information 

Partnership menbers and project objectives

Funding bid        (27 page PDF)

Project budget

Project plan

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March 2024

Home energy in the Highlands - community consultation

TBI is one of six community groups currently in the process of setting up and obtaining funding for a Highland Energy Community Partnership, which it is intended will  'implement a step-change in energy advice and retrofit activity in the Scottish Highlands'.

In preparation for setting up the partnership the groups are conducting a simple survey to gather information from people throughout the Highlands about their current heating systems and energy use, and what they might be able to do to use less energy and reduce carbon emissions.

The survey will only take 5 or 6 minutes to complete, and consists of simple tick-box questions with the opportunity to add additional comments.  Submissions are anonymous, and we encourage you to complete the survey as a step towards increasing the efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of heating in all Highland homes.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HEHighlands

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