Zero Carbon Accelerator

As part of his work to make London a zero carbon city by 2030, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the capital to use clean, flexible and locally generated energy and make more  effective use of energy in our buildings.

The Mayor’s Zero Carbon Accelerator (ZCA) brings the former Low Carbon Accelerators together to offer a flexible and varied range of support to increase the ability of organisations to take action.

Between 2016 and 2024, the LCAs supported public sector organisations across London to reduce emissions.  

Co-funded by the ERDF, the LCAs, comprised of the Retrofit Accelerators for Homes and Workplaces and the Local Energy Accelerator, supported London’s homes, businesses and public buildings to use less energy and save money on their energy bills.

Building upon these successes, the ZCA will grow these activities even further, helping to generate a sustainable and long-term pipeline of activity and make even greater strides towards a zero carbon London. There will be a continuation of support to organisations to procure and manage the delivery of decarbonisation projects. Mott MacDonald have been appointed to deliver the ZCA services, which will be open to new expressions of interest for support from summer 2024. A summary of the support available is shown below, and we will provide more information and materials on ZCA support in due course.

In the meantime, if you would like to find out more about the LCAs or development of the ZCA please email us at [email protected]

The ZCA will support organisations by:

• Helping organisations all the way through from developing a strategy to identifying, developing and delivering individual projects.

• Offering a wide range of technical expertise to ensure that projects move efficiently from idea and opportunity to feasibility, implementation and results.

• Identifying funding opportunities and supporting new finance models to help projects to deliver interventions at scale and address barriers to funding access.
• Using the lessons learned from the LCAs to drive collaboration between organisations, achieving greater impacts, economies of scale and joint efforts.
• Supporting training, staff development, and dissemination of best practices to help address public sector organisations’ capacity and capability issues relating to net zero activities.

Organisations will be empowered to take a holistic approach to decarbonising their estate, and increase their capacity to do so, in line with net zero 2030 ambitions. It will enable organisations to develop decarbonisation projects to a point where they are investment ready, through the provision of a range of services and/or grant funding.

Below you can find out more about the approaches that each of the LCAs took to improve energy efficiency in London.