Profile
The National Energy Foundation is an independent educational charity, based at Milton Keynes in the UK, that works to help people and businesses combat climate change by reducing their carbon emissions through implementing energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources. It undertakes this through the following activities:
- Offering information, advice and more technical consultancy support
- Providing infrastructure support, especially in the areas of energy certification and standards
- Working in education
- Undertaking projects in collaboration with other organisations
The National Energy Foundation has its headquarters at the National Energy Centre
in Milton Keynes. The Centre serves as a focal point for the efficient use of energy and development of small-scale renewable energy sources in the United Kingdom as well as hosting a number of other organisations operating in the sector. These include:
There are two buildings on the site:
- Phase I, designed to be an exemplar showing that high energy efficiency can be designed as an integral part of a building without adding additional costs. This has been achieved by a careful combination of orientation, window design, high insulation levels and high thermal mass.
- Phase II demonstrates energy efficiency in a lower mass, timber-framed building. Its features include a ground source heat pump feeding underfloor heating, solar water heating, high insulation levels and PV Solar panels.
- Part of the site is used for demonstration energy crops such as short rotation willow and miscanthus, suitable for use in a biomass boiler.
Organised groups may apply to visit the centre on payment of a small fee.
