UrbanTide is transforming how local authorities deliver home energy grants using AI-powered precision-targeting technology.
The UK Government has allocated £500 million to local authorities in an ambitious plan to pull low-income households out of fuel poverty over the next three years.
From April 2025, the Warm Homes: Local Grant will be used to deliver home energy performance upgrades and install low-carbon heating in fuel-poor homes throughout England.
With an estimated 1 in 4 UK households currently experiencing fuel poverty, this is a large-scale project that requires innovative solutions to ensure support is deployed efficiently and on target.
UrbanTide is leading the drive by providing local authorities with groundbreaking AI-powered precision-targeting technology: uZero.
Tackling fuel poverty with AI
uZero is an AI-powered data insights platform that maps, identifies and predicts fuel poverty across any UK council area.
By integrating anonymised real-time smart meter system data with multiple cross-sector datasets, uZero supports local authorities to transform how they deliver home energy grants, ensuring resources are targeted on the households that need it most.
uZero is built on industry-leading AI models that use smart meter intelligence and other household data to create interactive multi-layer fuel poverty maps. These are accessed through a single-source data insights platform, where local authorities can easily identify households that fit the grant criteria and build their distribution strategy around that intel.
See the results
uZero has already helped a number of local authorities increase their campaign engagement and grant scheme referrals - in one case, from less than 1% to 34%.
“Thanks to uZero's targeting, we saw a 34x increase in response rates, which supported us in delivering our £82M HUG2 programme and helped those most in need” — Greater South East Net Zero Hub (GSENZH).
Read these case studies to see how uZero has helped clients fight fuel poverty with data and AI:
- Dartford Borough and Dover District Council - Protecting a growing aging population from fuel poverty
- Social Connect - Delivering personalised support to 100,000 households each year
- Energy Savings Catapult - delivering the large-scale Electification of Heat project
- Sunderland City Council - Identifying ageing households most at risk of illnesses linked to cold and damp home
