After a successful debut in a repurposed city centre chapel last summer, Sheffield’s free community energy advice service has relaunched at a new permanent location on Pinstone Street; now offering guidance on green jobs, training, and mortgages alongside its original retrofit and renewables remit.
Sheffield’s Energy Hub is back. The community-run advice service, which opened its doors for the first time in June 2025 at Bethel Chapel on Cambridge Street, has relaunched at a new location: 108 Pinstone Street, near The Moor, as part of the city’s Heart of the City development.
The new site will continue to provide impartial information on energy efficiency, insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, grants, and community energy; but the hub is expanding and will now also offer information on training, jobs, and green mortgages.
Sheffield Energy Hub will be open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm.
What the Hub does
The Hub is a non-commercial service. Advice covers community-level energy generation; heat pumps, solar panels, and batteries; retrofit and insulation; and household energy efficiency measures and grants. Nobody sells anything on the premises.
Geoff Cox, co-manager of the Hub, has been clear about why that matters. “People are rightly wary of being mis-sold things they don’t fully understand, and being conned by cowboy builders chasing Government grant money,” he said. “We are a non-commercial service helping the public find a way through this.”
The Hub is the result of a voluntary collaboration between around 20 local organisations and individuals, brought together in partnership with Sheffield Community Energy, the South Yorkshire Climate Alliance, and Sheffield City Council.
Why it matters for Sheffield
Sheffield City Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and has set an ambition to reach net-zero by 2030. Domestic energy use accounts for 34% of South Yorkshire’s energy consumption, making home decarbonisation a central part of meeting that target.
One significant barrier many householders face is simply knowing where to start, or understanding what support or financing options may be available. The Hub exists precisely to lower that threshold.
Sheffield City Councillor Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee, said the Hub had been a “one-stop-shop to help Sheffield residents do their bit” and described the search for a new home as something the council was “delighted” to have resolved through the Heart of the City development.
Forces of Nature: the relaunch event
To mark the relaunch, the Hub is joining forces with Connected by Water to host a Forces of Nature event on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th February. The free drop-in will offer hands-on activities and information about water in South Yorkshire.
Free walking tours of Sheffield’s Grey to Green project will also run from the Hub at 1pm on both days, lasting approximately 90 minutes. The award-winning project transformed parts of Castlegate, one of Sheffield’s oldest city centre areas, into the UK’s longest “green street” and the biggest retrofitted sustainable urban drainage system in the country; replacing tarmacked streets with planting, improved drainage, and public space for walking and cycling.
The bigger picture
The Sheffield Energy Hub is supported by Sheffield City Council, which has provided a space on a meanwhile licence, though the project operates without core funding. Sheffield Renewables, a not-for-profit organisation that finances and builds renewable energy schemes on public buildings across the city, has also contributed; voting at its 2026 AGM to donate funding toward a video projector and window displays for the Hub.
Cox noted that investment in household renewable technologies is already accelerating nationally, bringing “jobs in manufacturing, installation, servicing, sales, finance and the like” that he described as “good jobs with a future.” The Hub’s expanded offer on training and employment reflects that shift.