Energy Wire – ideas for homeowners

Homeowner? Generate your own electricity – and make up to £900 a year!

Discover how installing electricity generating technologies could net you up to £900 a year, as well as providing you with free electricity.

Learn more about feed-in tariffs

Renting? Discover how to persuade your landlord to install energy saving measures in your home

Give your landlord a helping hand by downloading our template letter and emailing it to them. It contains all the latest info about energy saving grants, offers and financial incentives available to landlords who take action to improve the energy efficiency of their properties.

Download the letter now!

How will you use the extra hour of daylight?

The clocks go forward by an hour on 28th March, signalling lighter, brighter evenings and the start of spring. Find out how to make the most of the extra hour and stop wasting energy and money at the same time.

Enjoy those longer, lighter evenings

Get your garden ready for Summer

Read our tips on how to make the most of your patch of grass this summer. Find out how easy it is to go organic and grow your own fruit and veg or learn how to encourage hedgehogs and birds to come and visit. Don’t have a garden? There are allotment and container gardening tips too.

Tips for gardening success

What’s happening near you?

Want to get involved in the fight against climate change? Find out about local events, case studies and news stories in your local area. Just enter your postcode and away you go!

Try our new ‘Where I live’ tool