About Looped
We're building a movement for warm homes, fair energy and stronger communities.
Everyone deserves a warm, healthy home they can afford.
Looped exists to help communities, local organisations and investors come together to make that happen street by street.
We Believe
People First
Putting communities at the heart of everything we do.
Fair and Inclusive
Championing fairness, equity and access for all.
Sustainable
Building solutions that are good for people and the planet.
Collaborative
We believe in the power of partnership and local leadership.
Innovative
We're bold in our thinking and committed to continuous learning.
Our Story
Two organisations - One shared challenge - A new way forward
Looped Energy Communities wasn't created to deliver another retrofit programme.
It was created because two organisations, working together on the Net Zero Terrace Streets (NZTS) programme, reached the same conclusion:
Britain doesn't have a technology problem. It has a delivery problem.
While developing NZTS, we discovered that communities didn't need another pilot project. They needed a practical way to bring together local people, councils, investors, supply chains and the energy system into one coordinated neighbourhood model.
That realisation led to the creation of Looped Energy Communities.
Built on complementary strengths
Looped Energy Communities is a Community Interest Company jointly founded by Rossendale Valley Energy and the Centre for Energy Equality, bringing together decades of experience in community energy, innovation and whole-system delivery. The CIC structure ensures that our mission and social purpose remain at the heart of everything we do.
Rossendale Valley Energy
Grounded in communities.
Rossendale Valley Energy (RVE) is a long-established Community Benefit Society working directly with local people to reduce fuel poverty, improve homes and deliver practical community energy projects.
Its strength is building trusted relationships, engaging residents, developing local partnerships and turning ambitious ideas into projects that work on the ground.
RVE brought deep experience of:
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Community engagement and participation
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Fuel poverty and healthy homes
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Local project delivery
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Community energy development
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Building trust with residents
It understands that successful neighbourhood transformation begins with people.
Centre for Energy Equality
Focused on systems change.
The Centre for Energy Equality is a social enterprise established to tackle the structural barriers that prevent the energy transition from reaching everyone fairly.
Its work focuses on research, innovation, policy development, digital platforms, governance and creating new models capable of delivering neighbourhood-scale change.
CEE brought expertise in:
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Whole-system energy innovation
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Digital platforms and data
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Governance and quality assurance
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Investment readiness
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Commercialisation of new delivery models
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National policy and market development
It understands how complex systems can be redesigned to work better for communities.
The Net Zero Terrace Streets programme
Working together through the Innovate UK-funded Net Zero Terrace Streets programme, the two organisations set out to answer a fundamental question:
How do we decarbonise millions of terraced homes—not one property at a time, but whole neighbourhoods at a time?
Over several years of research, community engagement and practical demonstration, the partnership developed:
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the NZTS Playbook
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the Eight-Stage Deployment Methodology
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the Fairer Warmth Platform
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the Five Foundations model
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new approaches to governance, finance and quality assurance
Perhaps most importantly, the programme demonstrated that success depends on much more than technology. It requires a coordinated delivery model that combines trusted local leadership with consistent national support.
From project to platform
As the NZTS programme matured, it became clear that its greatest value was not simply the individual projects it delivered, but the repeatable delivery model it had created.
Rather than keeping that knowledge within a single partnership, RVE and CEE established Looped Energy Communities CIC as the national enabling organisation responsible for supporting communities across the UK to adopt and deliver the model. Looped now acts as the custodian of the NZTS methodology, digital platforms, quality assurance systems and governance framework, helping local delivery partners implement projects consistently while adapting them to local needs.
Why a joint venture?
Neither organisation could achieve this ambition alone.
Rossendale Valley Energy understands communities.
The Centre for Energy Equality understands systems.
Looped brings these strengths together.
Community experience ensures that every project starts with people.
Systems thinking ensures that every project can be repeated, improved and scaled.
Together they create a model that is both locally trusted and nationally consistent.
A new role
Looped does not replace local organisations.
Instead, it enables them.
Working through a network of Local Development Vehicles (LDVs), Looped provides the tools, standards, digital infrastructure, quality assurance and investment support that allow trusted local organisations to deliver neighbourhood energy projects successfully. This hub-and-spoke model enables local leadership while maintaining consistent national standards and learning.
