The South East New Energy (SENE) was a £6.4 million project, led by the University of East London and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The project aimed to help businesses decarbonise their operations and learn more about how we can remove the barriers to rapid decarbonisation. These changes are vital to meet the UK’s government target of net-zero by 2050.

South East New Energy was a research collaboration project funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The project covered Essex, Kent, and East Sussex with goals to understand and remove the barriers that prevent us rapidly decarbonising our communities, buildings, transport and lives.

We worked with businesses, councils, communities, organisations, households and individuals to:

• Develop and execute Net-Zero action plans
• Act in response to climate emergencies they have declared
• Build affordable zero-carbon homes
• Retrofit existing homes and commercial buildings
• Develop community and commercial energy projects
• Design, develop and bring to market new low carbon products and services

The SENE project has received funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding