Sureserve Announces Strategic Partnership with the Energy Innovation Agency

Sureserve is proud to announce a new partnership with the Energy Innovation Agency (the Agency), creating a nationwide collaboration focused on identifying, testing, scaling and delivering innovative solutions that support decarbonisation, energy efficiency and fuel poverty reduction across the UK. 

The partnership establishes a two-way innovation pathway designed to accelerate the journey from promising idea to large-scale deployment. Through its extensive network of innovators, local authorities, housing providers and industry partners, the Agency will connect Sureserve with emerging technologies, products and approaches that have the potential to transform the built environment. In return, Sureserve will provide the delivery expertise, client relationships and national reach needed to trial, validate and scale successful solutions across real-world projects. 

This approach will help bridge a common challenge within the innovation sector: moving proven technologies beyond small pilot projects and into large-scale implementation where they can deliver meaningful impact. 

One example is EndoTherm, an innovative solution designed to improve the efficiency of wet heating systems. Through the partnership, Sureserve will help evaluate and deploy technologies such as EndoTherm across a wider range of properties and portfolios, supporting reductions in energy consumption, carbon emissions and heating costs with minimal disruption to residents. Read more about how Sureserve are delivering EndoTherm as part of planned maintenance visits.

Together, Sureserve and the Agency will combine innovative technologies, funding solutions and delivery models to provide organisations with practical routes to accelerate retrofit, renewable energy and asset decarbonisation programmes. The partnership will support innovation across housing and the public sector while helping clients achieve measurable environmental, social and economic outcomes. 

While the Energy Innovation Agency has established strong partnerships across Greater Manchester, the collaboration will focus on opportunities nationwide, helping organisations across the UK access innovation, expertise, funding and scalable solutions that improve energy performance and create warmer, healthier homes and communities. 

Jay Ham, Group Head of ESG at Sureserve, said: 

"We're delighted to be partnering with the Energy Innovation Agency to help accelerate the adoption of innovation across the housing and public sectors. This is far more than a traditional partnership; it's a collaboration that allows both organisations to bring new ideas, technologies and opportunities to the table. 

By combining the Agency's innovation network with Sureserve's delivery expertise and scale, we can test promising solutions in real-world settings, bring successful innovations to more clients and help turn ambitious ideas into meaningful outcomes for residents and communities across the UK. 

Just as importantly, this partnership creates a route to scale. The Energy Innovation Agency helps us access emerging innovation and reach a wider network of organisations looking to tackle decarbonisation challenges, while Sureserve provides the delivery capability, funding expertise and operational scale needed to move successful solutions beyond pilots and into large-scale deployment. Together, we can help accelerate the adoption of technologies and programmes that make a real difference." 

David Schiele, Director, Energy Innovation Agency said: 

“The Agency is thrilled to announce its partnership with Sureserve, bringing together innovation and delivery by combining our expertise in identifying, validating and accelerating low-carbon solutions with Sureserve's proven capability to implement sustainable improvements at scale. Together, we can help organisations and communities reduce fuel poverty, lower costs, improve efficiency and accelerate decarbonisation.”