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1 month old This article is more than 1 month old Scheme will issue vouchers to just 49,000 people by end of March at current rate, analysis finds Forty per cent of UK emissions come from households. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Forty per cent of UK emissions come from households. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Fri 26 Feb 2021 01.00 EST The government’s flagship green homes grant scheme will help just 8% of its target 600,000 households switch to renewable energy by the end of March, analysis reveals. The £2bn for the scheme is being withdrawn at the end of next month. Analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank reveals that at the current rate it will issue vouchers to just 49,000 members of the public by that time. ....
Published: 26 Feb 2021, 12:16 By: Reporter, Solar Power Portal Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been called on to continue the Green Homes Grant ahead of next week s Budget. Image: HM Treasury Further calls have come in ahead of next week’s Budget for the Chancellor to not curtail the Green Homes Grant scheme. This latest letter has been signed by 19 organisations representing or working within the energy efficiency and low carbon heat sector, including Solar Energy UK, the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE), the National Insulation Association, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) and the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). It stated that premature closure of the Green Homes Grant Scheme would “put jobs in jeopardy, dash the dreams of homeowners and put the UK’s net zero target at significant risk”. This follows reports that the scheme - which is designed to provide vouchers for green home technolog ....
Green homes grant will meet only tiny fraction of target in England msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Britain’s homes are going green, says Derek Horrocks, who runs a home insulation business in Lancashire that has vacancies for architects, surveyors, administrators and accountants. Horrocks, who runs Sustainable Building Services from his offices in Skelmersdale, near Wigan, south Lancashire, says he spent much of 2020 contemplating how to avoid making redundancies. That was after several years when ministers said they wanted to turbo-charge. ....