Resources

This report by Pinsent Masons provides outline legal advice about the different options available to local authorities for clean local energy procurement and infrastructure development.

This Hub guide is an introduction to assist anyone dealing with a grid constrained site. The guide covers some background to how the network operates, why grid constraint occurs, some potential solutions and what steps you can take.

Industrial Clusters are local energy clusters in defined industrial areas, industrial campuses, or business parks. Essentially, these are small-medium sized groupings of businesses in the Greater South East area that may be interested in working together to achieve decarbonisation and other benefits.

The Hub has worked with Opergy Net Zero to publish a study and set of tools to support the decarbonisation of industrial clusters.

The digital tool library compiles a selection of useful tools available to support local authorities on their decarbonisation journeys.
Created in partnership by the Greater South East Net Zero Hub and UK Power Networks DSO, it aims to save local authorities time by providing useful resources in one place.

The Climate Action Plans Explorer (CAPE) is a new online facility that gathers together all available local authority Climate Action Plans from across the UK. You can use the Explorer to learn from what others are doing and replicate the best ideas to work more effectively towards your climate goals.

Learn more about how you can use the Explorer

The UK Green Building Council has developed a resource for local authorities, designed to support the development of retrofit policies and initiatives. The Retrofit Playbook is accompanied by an interactive map, a live resource, which highlights leading local authority retrofit policies across the UK. Use the map to help you or to promote your own best practice.

Local Energy North West Hub and The Retrofit Academy have collaborated to produce a new guide that aims to help local authorities find the best way to deliver retrofit works that comply with PAS 2035.

This guide is an introduction to power networks covering: the current approach, where the power comes from, how it is regulated, and approaches to connecting your project.

An introduction to how the power network is changing in the UK with the adoption of new technologies and ways of managing electricity use. This guide covers electricity generation, storage, the emergence of smart grids and new solutions to connecting to the grid.