Fuel Poverty Awareness Day takes place on Friday this week and whilst there is a national focus is on how to tackle this issue, the council is taking the opportunity to reiterate that a low-carbon future should include everyone and benefit all.
The Council’s recently launched Fuel Poverty strategy brings together all the efforts of different organisations across the city to tackle cold homes and high-energy bills for local people. The Strategy approaches tackling fuel poverty in three key ways – maximising income, reducing bills and increasing energy efficiency. Improving the energy efficiency of Nottingham’s homes so they require less energy to keep warm is a key part of the strategy. The latest innovations will be harnessed to do this, achieving warmer homes, cheaper bills and reducing carbon emissions at the same time. The Council is exploring how to utilise the latest renewable energy generation and storage technologies, and new types of energy services, to maximise the ability of low-carbon generation to reduce home energy bills.
The city has already seen significant carbon reductions through its Greener HousiNG scheme delivered with Nottingham City Homes and Nottingham Energy Partnership. Over 7,000 hard-to-heat private and social houses have had external wall insulation in the city, as well as fitting solar panels to provide free electricity to 4,000 NCH tenants. Recent years have seen the city’s carbon emissions and energy consumption drop and Robin Hood Energy, a not-for-profit company, has also set up by the City Council in 2015 to help tackle fuel poverty.
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