Published: 1 Mar 2021, 10:17
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Reporter, Solar Power Portal
The TUC is recommending that unspent funding is passed over to the Local Authority allocation, where solar is an eligible technology.
Of the 100,000 new jobs to result from the Green Homes Grant, only 14,500 of these have been created to date.
This is according to new analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which warned that over 8,000 of these jobs could be lost in 2021-2022 as a result of the government cutting the funding to the scheme. It was announced in February that any unspent funds from the £2 billion scheme would not be rolled over to the next financial year.
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