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Cheap loans for families to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries
News from The City, market updates plus comment and analysis from our business desk I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Homeowners will be able to access low and zero-interest…
Cheap loans for families to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries
Homeowners will be able to access low and zero-interest loans to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries under a flagship energy upgrades scheme. Low-income households and fuel-poor families struggling to pay energy bills will also receive…
Low-income homes to get free solar panels and heat pumps in £15bn Miliband plan
MILLIONS of low-income families are set to get free solar panels, batteries and heat pumps as part of a new plot to splash tax-payer cash. The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband's new “Warm Homes Plan” offers upgrades worth up to…
Things I wish I knew before installing solar panel batteries at home
If you're considering installing solar panels at home, you've likely come across solar batteries, which are large lithium-ion packs that store excess power for when the sun isn't shining. Using the same technology found in electric vehicles, these…
Cheap loans for families to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries
Low-income households and fuel-poor families struggling to pay energy bills will also receive free upgrades for insulation and clean tech backed by £5 billion of public investment, officials said. The measures form part of the Government's…
Biggest homes upgrade in UK history' sees solar panels as standard on new homes
The Warm Homes Plan will deliver £15 billion of public investment, rollout upgrades to up to 5 million homes that could save them hundreds on energy bills and help to lift up to a million families out of fuel poverty by 2030. It includes…
Warm Homes Plan offers massive housing upgrades to cut energy bills
Labour is preparing to flood the UK with Chinese-made solar panels as it tries to deliver on its pledge to bring household energy bills down. The Government's Warm Homes Plan, announced today, will see millions of families able to access solar…
UK households to get £15bn for solar and green tech to lower energy bills
Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporterand Households will be eligible for thousands of pounds' worth of solar panels and other green tech to lower their energy bills, the government has announced. The long-awaited Warm Homes Plan promises to…
No ban on gas boilers in UK warm homes plan but heat pumps get £2.7bn push
There will be no phaseout date for gas boilers in the government's warm homes plan despite its pledge to wean the UK off fossil fuels, but billions of pounds will go towards heat pumps and insulation upgrades. Labour's principal attempt to solve…
Labour's warm homes plan is all carrot and no stick for UK households
Attempts to insulate the UK's draughty homes have failed time and again, with botched schemes over the past two decades leading to a massive drop in the number of insulation upgrades. With its long-awaited warm homes plan, the Labour government has…
Why my £500k beach hut shouldn't be slapped with an extra £750-a-year second home tax
“Hold on tight”, warns Stephen Bath as he slowly notches up the throttle on his blue and white speedboat to send us gliding across the calm waters of Christchurch Harbour. It's a cold, misty January morning, but quickly into view…
China solar giants warn of record loss
China's top solar panel companies estimated they lost up to $5.5 billion last year despite the government's efforts to rein in a punishing price war. The country's solar installations have surged but were outpaced by a massive supply glut ; the…
The problem with Sydney's 'institutional' public toilets
For the chair of Sydney's light rail operator, the lesson from the metro project is clear. “Turn up and go [transport] is what Sydney's fallen in love with,” ALTRAC chair Penny Graham said. “And after the shiny new metro, the…
Changes coming in CT residential solar market. 'Industry hasn't metabolized a change like this ever'
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Big changes are underway for Connecticut's residential solar market as a result of recent policy shifts at both the state and federal level. What that means for homeowners interested in going solar depends…
5 million households to save hundreds in major change amid energy bill 'scandal
Homeowners will be able to access low and zero interest loans to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries under a new flagship energy upgrades scheme. Low income households and fuel poor families struggling to pay energy bills will also…
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