Sustainable Homes
The Sustainable Homes Network
Energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, water recycling and other measures can make your home more sustainable and cheaper to run. But what do these methods involve? Where can you get the products? How much do they cost? The Sustainable Homes Network, brought to you by Sustainable Uttlesford, helps people answer these questions. You can visit their website here
Herts Essex Energy Partnership open for business
New grants and loans
A new scheme offers grants and loans for energy efficiency and renewables in private homes to residents in West Essex and Hertfordshire.
Do you want to improve the energy efficiency of your home or generate your own energy? The Herts Essex Energy Partnership (HEEP) is a new scheme designed to help you do just that, offering a one stop-shop for getting measures and financial support.
As well as having free measures available for those on benefits, the scheme offers everyone else:
* £99 loft or cavity wall insulation (subject to survey)
* Basic draught-proofing, hot water tank insulation and improved heating controls
Grants and interest free loans to cover 50% of the cost of
* Solar water heating
* Solar PV (electricity)
* Air and ground source heat pumps
* Wood pellet stoves and wood boilers
* Solid wall insulation (internal or external)
* And other advanced insulation measures
…when fitted into existing private homes
The interest free loans are repaid on sale of the property, with no time limit.
To arrange a survey call 0800 9806026. More details will be published on www.heepgrant.org/ as they come available.
The scheme is an initiative of 15 local authorities in West Essex (Uttlesford, Harlow, Epping, Brentwood and Chelmsford districts) and Hertfordshire, and has £6.63M of funding from the East of England Regional Assembly for 2 years. The scheme draws in and integrates funding from other existing sources, making access to this funding as simple as possible for householders. Installers working under the scheme work to strict standards and pre-negotiated pricing structures to ensure customers get quality improvements at reasonable prices.
‘Clean energy cashback’ for household electricity generation
People that get a system now can benefit from grants/loans AND get the cashback tariff.
For example calculations please click here
For more details on the Clean Energy Cashback scheme, see the consultation document: here
The Energy Saving Trust
The Energy Saving Trust is a good source of advice on energy saving measures and also on available grants. See their website at www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/