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Fuel Poverty Intelligence
for Social Housing

SensecoreAI is the only UK energy platform with a built-in Fuel Poverty Risk Score — automatically scoring every property daily using meter data alone, so your welfare team acts before a crisis, not after one.

3.1M
Households in fuel poverty
DESNZ official figure 2025
FPRS
Fuel Poverty Risk Score
Built into the core platform
SHDF
Grant evidence automated
Baseline and post-retrofit data
Daily
Property scoring
No surveys or home visits
WHAT IS FUEL POVERTY?

Why Housing Associations Have a Legal Obligation to Act

Fuel poverty occurs when a household cannot afford to heat their home to a safe temperature. It affects 3.1 million households in England — most of them in social housing.

The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and the government's Warm Homes Plan place a clear legal obligation on registered providers to identify fuel-poor households and act. The problem is that traditional identification methods — tenant surveys and referrals — miss the vast majority of vulnerable households.

SensecoreAI's Fuel Poverty Risk Score (FPRS) solves this by analysing meter data patterns to automatically identify properties showing signs of fuel poverty — without requiring any surveys, home visits, or tenant interaction.

HOW FPRS WORKS

Five Signals From Your Meter Data

1
Consumption Level
Unusually low consumption relative to property type and size — a key indicator of self-rationing.
2
Temporal Distribution
Heating patterns concentrated in short windows rather than spread across the day — signs of rationing behaviour.
3
Seasonal Variation
Reduced or absent winter heating response — properties that fail to warm up during cold periods.
4
Consumption Volatility
Irregular spikes suggesting prepayment meter top-ups — a direct indicator of financial constraint.
5
Anomaly Reconstruction Error
LSTM Autoencoder reconstruction error — detecting patterns that deviate from baseline in ways consistent with hardship.
YOUR OBLIGATIONS

Compliance Automated for Housing Associations

FPRS

Fuel Poverty Risk Score

The Warm Homes Plan and Social Housing Regulation Act require registered providers to identify and act on fuel poverty across their stock. SensecoreAI scores every property automatically — no surveys needed.

How SensecoreAI handles it

Daily scoring of every property from 0–100. Properties above the critical threshold trigger automatic welfare referral alerts to your housing management team.

SHDF

Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund

SHDF retrofit grants require documented baseline energy performance data before works and post-retrofit monitoring evidence. Without this, applications fail or cannot be verified.

How SensecoreAI handles it

SensecoreAI generates the baseline performance data and post-retrofit monitoring evidence that SHDF applications require — directly from data already in the platform. No additional data collection needed.

SECR

Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting

Housing Associations with 250+ employees must report Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions annually in their directors report. Manual calculation using DEFRA factors is error-prone and time-consuming.

How SensecoreAI handles it

SensecoreAI calculates emissions automatically using current DEFRA conversion factors and generates a submission-ready PDF from your meter data. Your team reviews and approves.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Housing Associations Ask Us This

We don't have smart meters on all properties. Can we still use SensecoreAI?
Yes. SensecoreAI works with any half-hourly CSV data. If you have smart meters on part of your portfolio, you can start with those and expand as coverage increases. The FPRS can also work with monthly readings for properties without smart meters.
How is FPRS different from a tenant survey?
A tenant survey requires the tenant to self-identify as fuel poor — most don't. FPRS analyses meter data patterns that are associated with fuel poverty behaviour, identifying at-risk households automatically and continuously, without any tenant interaction.
What happens when a property scores high on FPRS?
A welfare referral alert is triggered automatically in the dashboard. Your housing management team is notified with the property details, the risk score, and the specific signals that triggered the flag. From there, your team follows your existing welfare referral process.
Can we use SensecoreAI for our SHDF grant application?
Yes. SensecoreAI generates the baseline energy performance data that SHDF applications require, and continues monitoring post-retrofit to provide the impact evidence funders need to verify.
How many properties can we manage?
The Pilot plan covers up to 10 buildings at £299/month. The Portfolio plan covers up to 30 buildings. Enterprise covers unlimited properties — suitable for large registered providers managing thousands of units.

Ready to score your portfolio for fuel poverty?

Book a 30-minute demonstration on your own property data. We will show you the FPRS output live.

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