After the launch of the ‘Toolkit’ we have had a good response from those households interested in taking steps to improve their homes energy efficiency.
The team are now engaged in trying to get good discount deals with companies, for all the interventions you said you wanted. Some are easier than others.
Loft insulation proved popular and we have a local company involved with that.
Draught-proofing also, this time we have a national company offering good discount because we have large numbers signed up.
We received interest for all the forty measures we had highlighted in the Toolkit, which shows that folk are really thinking about how they can improve their energy efficiency.
So if you are reading this and have not registered your interest in any improvements, contact us immediately and we may be able to get you in on many of the great energy improvement offers.
Back around Xmas time we launched our Smart Monitor project, we now have some early results from collecting all your data. It seems that the average daily usage is 16.7kWh or 16 units per day. This is greater than the national average and may represent the use of electric heating over the cold winter and a number of bigger properties.
As part of this project we would like to hear your stories if you have changed your energy usage since the start of this project. Some of you have offered us valuable insights into how you have cut your energy use.
The Smart monitor project will continue till Mar 2011, so if you want to have a long term loan or have not yet received yours contact us.
We have taken on some complex case studies of several of local homes that we hope may provide us with future models for how to make real cost effective improvements. One of the projects is to provide a combined biomass heating system for a terrace of four cottages. These case studies are still at an early stage but show great opportunity for saving both money and carbon for the residents. We will update you on our progress.
On a national level, the Feed In Tariff (FIT), should prove to be a driver for the introduction of more Renewable energy as the government will now pay a hansom rate for your generated electricity, there is also a Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which pays for heat generated. With guaranteed payment periods of 15 years there is now little reason for not acting. If you would like more information contact us.
