18 March 2025
National Grid – Smart Energy Affordability Fund
National Grid Energy Distribution (NGED) is working in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to provide this funding in response to the cost-of-living and energy crises.
Funding is intended to support not-for-profit organisations to help vulnerable households to benefit from low-carbon technologies and smart energy products and services. Funded groups will enable every customer to participate and benefit in a net zero energy system by offering the right advice at the right moment in each customer’s journey to ensure no one is left behind in the energy transition.
Funding will support activities that meet one or more of the following objectives:
- Provide in-depth one-to-one advice and support to help vulnerable households take up and benefit from low-carbon technologies and smart energy products and services (Required).
- Provide in-depth one-to-one fuel poverty advice and support by helping vulnerable households lower and manage their bills, make their homes more energy efficient, reduce their energy demand, and maximise their income.
- Provide support and advice to increase the resilience of vulnerable households to severe winter weather and what to do in a power cut – including identifying new registrants for the Priority Services Register (PSR) and offering support to households already registered.
- Target home energy advice and support to households that are in areas of higher deprivation, at greater risk, not connected to the gas network, or who have difficulty accessing support.
- Connect with healthcare providers, other support organisations, and community partners to widen networks, raise awareness of the links between cold, damp homes and poor physical and mental health, improve collaboration to register PSR-eligible patients, and increase access to support.
The deadline for applications is 27 March 2025 (noon). Applicants will be notified of any decisions made by 16 April 2025.