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We provide expert advice and assistance to home owners, landlords and private tenants in assessing and sourcing funding and quotations for insulation, heating and renewable energy upgrades in the South of England.

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Projects and Services

We design, develop and deliver fuel poverty projects, and offer consultancy to Local Authorities.

Projects and Services

We design, develop and deliver fuel poverty projects, and offer consultancy to Local Authorities.

Projects and Services

We design, develop and deliver fuel poverty projects, and offer consultancy to Local Authorities.

SGN Dorset Help for Warmth

SGN Dorset Help for Warmth is a partnership between SGN and Ridgewater Energy. It supports vulnerable residents by providing free high quality energy advice home visits by qualified advisors, focussed on reducing costs, increasing efficiency and maintaining a warmer home.

The scheme can help anyone living in a domestic premises to obtain a free home visit where an expert will provide you with free comprehensive tailored advice, support and resources to help you keep warm, safe, healthy and live independently.

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Warm Homes: Local Grant

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Dorset Council and BCP Council will soon launch the new Warm Homes: Local Grant. Similar to the 2024 Dorset Home Upgrade Grant, Warm Homes: Local Grant is designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes across Dorset.

The scheme enables homeowners and private renters to access funded energy saving measures such as loft & cavity wall insulation, external wall insulation, heating upgrades, air source heat pumps and solar panels. The Warm Homes: Local Grant scheme will help reduce energy use and fuel costs for Dorset residents who live in the lower energy rated homes (EPC D to G) and heat their homes with a fuel other than mains gas such as; electric heaters, oil and LPG boilers and solid fuel heating.

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Energy & Money Saving Booklet

Ridgewater Energy have worked in conjunction with a number of organisations, in order to develop an Energy & Money Saving Booklet, tailored to the BCP Council and Dorset Council area.

Commissioned by BCP Council and Dorset Council, the booklet contains a number of hints & tips for every day guidance, methods to help reduce your energy use, tools to manage your budget & energy usage and a list of local organisations that can assist you.

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Local Energy Advice Partnership

LEAP (Local Energy Advice Partnership) is a FREE home visit scheme to assist residents throughout Dorset with free energy advice, energy saving devices, along with access to other improvements like heating upgrades and insulation. Eligibility criteria is vast, if you are in a receipt of a benefit, suffering from poor health or are vulnerable, you will most likely qualify for this scheme. It is also the first assessment we advise to carry out, as it refers candidates for other grant schemes that could benefit them.

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Advice Resources

Download and read our helpful factsheets, they include advice on topics such as storage heaters, boilers, heating controls, insulation, condensation prevention, LED lighting and private rented sector guidance.

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