Pitching Workshop

"The workshop was really helpful and I ended up being over prepared on the 'meet the buyer event' (which is better than being underprepared) I would be most interested in any further presentation workshops that you may have. It was lively engaging and interesting - he was a great speaker "

Naheed Afzal, Contracts IT Ltd

18/09/2009 - Mayor of London Low Carbon Zones

The Mayor of London is investing £2m to create Low Carbon Zones in a plan to cut emissions.

Boroughs submitted bids for the funding and the ten winners will receive funding of between £200,000 and £400,000 each.

The winners:

  1. Barking Town Centre (Barking and Dagenham)

    • Offering low cost offers of insulation and heating to low income households

    • Setting up charging points for electric vehicles

    • Increasing the decentralised energy network in the area

  2. Muswell Hill (Haringey)

    • Working with a major local retailer to use their roof space to install photovoltaic panels which can then be used to power local homes and save residents money

    • Installing measures to make community buildings, including the local library, more energy efficient

  3. Archway (Islington)

    • Green ‘energy doctor’ programme – energy doctors will offer residents an audit of how they can make their homes more energy efficient, from small measures such as installing energy efficient light bulbs and radiator panels, to support for households wanting to make bigger changes

    • Setting up apprenticeship schemes for local residents to train to become ‘energy doctors’

  4. Brixton (Lambeth)

    • Low carbon heating will be supplied to residents from Kings College Hospital

    • Working to make existing community buildings more energy efficient

  5. Lewisham Town Centre (Lewisham)

    • Working with designers to look at innovative ways to make period housing in a local conservation area more energy efficient. Looking at solid wall insulation and other measures to create carbon savings without spoiling the look of the housing

  6. Wandle Valley (Merton)

    • Setting up an apprentice scheme for local residents to train to become ‘energy doctors’

    • Looking at opportunities to extract energy from waste to heat homes and community buildings

  7. Ham and Petersham (Richmond upon Thames)

    • Working with Oxford University to help local residents to become more energy efficient with a smart metering scheme. This will involve monitoring how much energy is used in the home and then giving an analysis as to where savings can be made. Residents will then be supported to make changes through offers of grants and loans to make their homes more energy efficient

  8. Peckham (Southwark)

    • Securing private investment to help upgrade heating systems in flats to communal heating systems and provide heat metering

    • Working with local SME businesses to train local residents to help provide an advice service for residents about how to make their homes more energy efficient

  9. Hackbridge (Sutton)

    • Working with a local retailer to offer low cost insulation to local residents

    • Working with local schools to install energy efficiency measures and solar panels and to educate the next generation. Running competitions between groups of households with rewards for those who save the most energy and offering Pay As You Save options to help manage the costs of installing energy efficiency measures and solar panels

    • Looking at new ways of supplying heat efficiently to older homes using decentralised energy, only used previously in the UK on larger buildings

  10. Queen’s Park (Westminster)

    • Working with energy suppliers to upgrade heating systems on local estates to Combined Heat and Power (CHP). Saving residents money and cutting carbon

    • Setting up electric vehicle charging points

 

For more information visit www.london.gov.uk/lowcarbonzones

 

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