A government consultation on Future Homes Standards has the potential to reduce insulation on new homes by 50 %. It also proposes stopping local authorities like B&NES Council from imposing higher standards. B&NES currently requires new homes to be built with 19% lower CO2 emissions than national minimum standards. Please help us and the planet […]
The release of the Government’s “Household Energy Efficiency Statistics” today highlights a problem with the current programme of installing energy efficiency measures in homes. Cavity wall and loft insulation funded by energy companies under the ECO scheme are down 85% since their peak in 2014. The problem was largely caused by the failure of the […]
A recent report by the Association for the Conservation of Energy (AECB) calculates that the UK has the highest level of fuel poverty in Europe and the fabric of its buildings is among the worst of all European countries. Recent changes to government policy with roll-backs of energy efficiency measures in homes including: The cancellation […]
For those not already aware of the scheme, B&NES council have been offering generous top up grants for a wide range of retrofit work on homes to make them more energy efficient and comfortable to live in. The current scheme is coming to an end, so if you are in the process of applying you […]
On April 14th we will be holding our annual project planning meeting to decide which projects we are going to be running in the coming year. This will involve both new projects and continuing work with existing projects. Potential new and old projects include: Thermal Imaging: how should we go forward (there will be a […]
If you apply between 9am on Monday 19th January 2015 and 5pm Friday 30th January 2015 B&NES Energy At Home scheme will be providing free training and certification programmes for trades-people and community groups. More details are available here: www.energyathome.org.uk/trade-support If you are having work being done on your home at the moment we would encourage you to point out […]
As part of the B&NES Energy At Home scheme B&NES Council are continuing to provide heavily subsidised training and certification programmes for trades-people. If you are having work being done on your home at the moment we would encourage you to point out to your trades-people that these subsidised courses are available and will enable them […]
Bath Western Riverside Energy Centre provides the heating and hot water via a district heating system to approximately 800 homes on the newly built Crest Nicolson development at Bath Western Riverside. For those of you who didn’t get the opportunity of visiting the centre during Bath Green Homes we felt it would be useful for […]
The details of Bath Green Homes 2014 have just been published; including 20 events and the details of the 16 homes open on the weekend of the 28th/29th September. A copy of the leaflet which includes details of the events and the open homes weekend is available here and the poster is available here. For further […]