warriorupnorth
Private Member
Any one in Bath area , this may be off interest 
For years, loft and cavity wall insulation have been the mainstay of local and national schemes to help improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel bills. While thousands of households have been helped in this way, many older homes need different measures to achieve high energy performance standards.
Now CSE’s new ‘Freedom from Fuel Poverty’ project is tackling this issue head on for people living in such homes across Bath and North East Somerset.
The project is focused on providing free installation of solid wall insulation and solar hot water systems to people living in severe fuel poverty in their own homes, offering the prospect of savings of up to £400 a year on their fuel bills.
The new grant scheme, funded on a pilot basis by Bath and North East Somerset Council, will run alongside CSE’s current Warm Streets project, which already helps provide measures such as loft and cavity wall insulation to residents across the whole of Somerset (see the project here).
Phillip Morris, the Freedom from Fuel Poverty project manager at CSE, said: “This project allows us to reach out for the first time to people who have previously been unable to take advantage of mainstream schemes. Establishing reliable, cost-effective systems for installing more complicated and costly measures like solid wall insulation is a vital step in this process. With almost a quarter of the population likely to be facing fuel poverty by the end of this year, it’s important that we start getting experience of tackling ‘harder-to-treat’ properties now.
Bath has a particularly high proportion of properties for which solid wall insulation will make a big difference to cutting both carbon emissions and the cost of keeping warm. So this pilot offers a great opportunity to develop experience in the supply chains and learn the best approaches.â€
To be considered for the scheme, households must first contact Warm Streets to be assessed for their level of fuel poverty. They must also have a joint income of less than £20,000 and savings of less than £20,000, and be the owner of the property.
If this is the case, people should contact CSE on weekdays between 10.00 and 14.00 by phoning 0800 082 2234.
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For years, loft and cavity wall insulation have been the mainstay of local and national schemes to help improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel bills. While thousands of households have been helped in this way, many older homes need different measures to achieve high energy performance standards.
Now CSE’s new ‘Freedom from Fuel Poverty’ project is tackling this issue head on for people living in such homes across Bath and North East Somerset.
The project is focused on providing free installation of solid wall insulation and solar hot water systems to people living in severe fuel poverty in their own homes, offering the prospect of savings of up to £400 a year on their fuel bills.
The new grant scheme, funded on a pilot basis by Bath and North East Somerset Council, will run alongside CSE’s current Warm Streets project, which already helps provide measures such as loft and cavity wall insulation to residents across the whole of Somerset (see the project here).
Phillip Morris, the Freedom from Fuel Poverty project manager at CSE, said: “This project allows us to reach out for the first time to people who have previously been unable to take advantage of mainstream schemes. Establishing reliable, cost-effective systems for installing more complicated and costly measures like solid wall insulation is a vital step in this process. With almost a quarter of the population likely to be facing fuel poverty by the end of this year, it’s important that we start getting experience of tackling ‘harder-to-treat’ properties now.
Bath has a particularly high proportion of properties for which solid wall insulation will make a big difference to cutting both carbon emissions and the cost of keeping warm. So this pilot offers a great opportunity to develop experience in the supply chains and learn the best approaches.â€
To be considered for the scheme, households must first contact Warm Streets to be assessed for their level of fuel poverty. They must also have a joint income of less than £20,000 and savings of less than £20,000, and be the owner of the property.
If this is the case, people should contact CSE on weekdays between 10.00 and 14.00 by phoning 0800 082 2234.
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