Funding granted for Wiltshire home energy improvements
More than 200 homes are set to be upgraded
Wiltshire Council has been granted £3.6 million of Government funding to increase the energy efficiency of existing households in the county.
The grant comes as part of the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s Home Upgrade scheme.
The council have ambitions on being carbon neutral by 2030 and this money will be spent on retrofitting as many as 210 homes in Wiltshire by 2025.
Back in 2021, the council used almost £550,000 to improve 90 of its least energy efficient homes.
A whole house retrofit takes considers the fabric, the heating and hot water requirements, ventilation, and the people living in the property to establish the appropriate measures to implement for that individual property.
Some of the measures deployed to retrofit a property include:
• Energy efficiency measures such as wall, loft and underfloor insulation
• Low-carbon heating technologies such as heat pumps
• Smart measures such as smart heating controls.
Cllr Nick Holder, Wiltshire Council Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change, said: “Successfully securing this funding demonstrates the scope of our ambitions for the county.
“We are always looking for opportunities to decrease carbon emissions and this funding will help us to build on our ongoing work to make Wiltshire homes as energy efficient as possible, which during the current cost-of-living crisis is more important than ever.”