Highland Energy Community Partnership
What is the Highland Energy Community Partnership?
The Highland Energy Community Partnership (HECP) project aims to overcome barriers to home decarbonisation and fuel poverty alleviation in the remote Scottish Highlands. Delivered by community partners, HECP empowers local communities in the Highland region to embrace energy efficiency and tackle climate change. Co-ordinated by Changeworks, this innovative partnership project has been made possible through funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.
HECP’s key initiatives include promoting environmentally friendly energy use, supporting communities to retrofit their homes, and sharing learnings that support rural retrofit activity beyond the project area. The community partners delivering the activity in their areas are: Coigach Community Development Company, Lochbroom and Ullapool Community Trust, Gairloch and Loch Ewe Action Forum, The Garve and District Development Company, Contin, Jamestown and Tarvie Projects and Transition Black Isle. The Highland Council, University of the Highlands and Islands and Home Energy Scotland are supporting our community group partners to deliver the HECP project.
More information about the partnership can be found here.
How can the partnership help me?
Each partner organisation has employed a Community Energy Officer who can help you to:
- access grant funding and interest free loans for home energy efficiency improvements
- understand energy reports given to you about your home by Home Energy Scotland
- explore energy improvements and renewables options for your home
- find installers to carry out work
- access training in retrofit and renewables construction skills
Your Community Energy Officer
Laura Traynor is the Community Energy Officer for the Coigach Community Development Company area.
Laura’s background is in energy efficiency and renewables, with a Masters degree in energy economics, past work for a renewables installer, and having delivered an energy efficiency and renewables project for Ullapool Community Trust back in 2012-2014.
Get in Touch
comDrop in to the CCDC office at Coigach Community Hall on Monday or Wednesday afternoons or email laurat@coigachcommunity.com to arrange a time to chat
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