The project will provide a roadmap for increasing CO awareness by identifying gaps in the current understanding and areas for improvement in current practices. Initially this will involve research to identify the sources of CO and previously completed work in this area, and to understand the current scale of the problem. A gap analysis will then be undertaken to create a roadmap and provide recommendations for the best way to close these knowledge gaps, through future strategies, interventions, and further innovation projects. The roadmap will take into consideration the various ways in which different demographics and local areas may respond to the options suggested, allowing for a tailored approach, based on the individual circumstances faced by customers.

Benefits

The project has the potential to deliver the below benefits:

Health and safety

·       the project will improve understanding of the dangers of CO, the report and roadmap will provide the gas networks (and wider stakeholders) with a better understanding of work needed to improve CO awareness.

Environmental

·       the project may provide incentives to move away from fossil fuels and offer longer term solutions to prevent dangers of CO and as such may lead to a wider understanding of possible low carbon heat solutions such as heat pumps or future hydrogen appliances. 

Customers

·       the project will provide improved CO awareness, deploying various delivery mechanisms to be identified and suggested within roadmap of future projects. 

Community

·       this project will engage with wider stakeholder groups, and require broader engagement with stakeholders throughout the community, with their inputs being crucial to project success.