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Free Expert Energy Advice

We provide a free , professional energy advice service to households throughout Perth and Kinross to help them become more energy efficient and reduce their energy bills.

The HEAT Project 2024

The Heat Project is a community-based initiative and part of Blairgowrie and Rattray Development Trust. We are funded by Ofgem’s Energy Redress Scheme to provide a free, professional energy advice service to households throughout Perth and Kinross. We have helped over 3000 households in Perth and Kinross save an average of 15-20 percent on their energy bills and become more energy efficient at the same time.

Professional energy advice

We are a community-based home energy advice service, providing free, impartial and expert energy advice to households throughout Perth and Kinross

Encouraging and supporting individual households

We provide tailored advice for households with high energy consumption such as off-gas-grid, older, exposed, and hard-to-treat properties, helping them to reduce energy consumption and improve energy efficiency, and on the installation of small-scale renewables, in order to improve long-term energy security.

Tackle fuel poverty and reduce energy debt

Provide advice to vulnerable households in remote/rural areas and in urban conurbations We helped about 132 households to pay off over £73,092 of energy debt through The Scottish HOME HEATING SUPPORT FUND during the energy price crisis and cost of living crisis.

Working in partnership with other bodies

Our approach is to cooperate with community bodies, engage with local communities and reference to other organisations or public bodies

Help improve the delivery of Scottish Government targets on climate change

help improve the delivery of Scottish Government targets on; climate change, energy efficiency, reducing fuel poverty, and reducing carbon emissions.

Free Expert Energy Advice

We have helped over 3000 households, helping people in Perth and Kinross save an average of 15-20 per cent on their energy bills and become more energy efficient

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Insulation, insulation, insulation

April 18th, 2023|0 Comments

Why Insulating your Home should be a top priority? Insulating more homes would reduce energy bills, carbon emissions and would create tens of thousands of new jobs. Most importantly, it would benefit society's poorest the [...]

How we have helped our households in Perth and Kinross

Over 3000 households

Free, impartial and professional energy advice

Average of 15-20 per cent

Reduce energy bills and become more energy efficient

Over 500 households

Successfully apply for grants or get free insulation installed

132 households

Pay off more than £73,000 of energy debt

What our partnership say

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The work of The HEAT Project is instrumental in helping to provide households, businesses and communities with energy savings advice to help them reduce their energy bills and water usage. It’s engagement with the local communities to research and review initiatives also helps towards reducing the carbon footprint and increasing environmental sustainability.

Perth and Kinross Council
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The North East Home Energy Scotland advice centre fully supports The HEAT Project and strongly believes that the aims of the project are both worthwhile and achievable.

Home Energy Scotland
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The HEAT Project has supplied a great deal of information along with support for the general public to use as a reference for “best practice” guide to insulate the property with any grants or loans which may be available at the time.

Caledonia Care and Repair
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