The red-brick Frampton Park Estate, a set of five-story social housing blocks in east London, is built like many other residential complexes in the British capital. Even the lines of solar panels that cover the roofs of the estate are an increasingly common sight.
But Frampton is the flagship example of a pioneering initiative to make an equitable energy transition in the city of nearly nine million people, one where low-income residents are directly benefiting from and even supporting solar energy.
“One of the most important things for us is for this energy transition to be just,” says Sarah Young, who is cabinet member for climate change, environment and transport at Hackney Council, the local…
