Government allocates £560m to decarbonise housing
More than £560million has been set aside by the UK Government to boost the energy efficiency of 50,000 homes. The Government has issued £500m from the Green Homes Grant and £62m from a Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to be shared by 300 local authorities in England and Scotland to fund upgrades to some of the […]
Poverty harming UK’s chances of reaching net-zero
Unfortunately, the word ‘poverty’ is one with which we are all too familiar and conjures up images of people, often children, in far off lands struggling to survive in poor economic situations. Sadly, while the UK is considered an affluent country with a stable economy, we also suffer our own levels of relative poverty. And […]
Tests To Assess Impact of Solar Power on Fuel Poverty
London councils have received funding from the Green Investment Bank to pilot a project assessing the impact of solar power on tackling fuel poverty. Camden, Islington and Waltham Forest are collaborating on a scheme to install solar panels and batteries in 41 low income homes to see how they affect fuel consumption and costs. Part-funded […]
Report highlights problems with ‘fit-and-forget’ approach to renewable technoloigies in social housing to tackle fuel poverty
According to a report at Sheffield Hallam University, social-housing providers are installing renewable energy systems without fully understanding how the technologies perform or what level of savings are being delivered to residents, in what has been labelled a ‘fit-and-forget’ approach to fuel poverty. The Centre of Infrastructure Management at the university stated that PV arrays […]
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