The government has unveiled its new £1bn ECO+ scheme offering home insulation to the least energy efficient homes in the lower council tax bands.
The scheme will also extend support to those households identified as most vulnerable.
Under plans announced by business secretary Grant Shapps, the ECO+ scheme will extend to those who do not currently benefit from any other government support to upgrade their homes.
ECO+ will join the existing £6.6bn ‘Help to Heat’ energy schemes.
Public information campaign
Meanwhile, a new £18m public information campaign will also offer technical tips and advice for people to cut their energy use.
Of the £1bn funding available through ECO+, around 80% will be for households with an EPC rating of D or below – and in the lower Council Tax bands.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: “In the longer term, we need to make Britain more energy independent by generating more clean, affordable, home-grown power, but we also need more efficient homes and buildings.
“Our ECO+ scheme will help hundreds of thousands of people across the UK to better insulate their homes to reduce consumption, with the added benefit of saving families hundreds of pounds each year.
“Making homes more energy efficient is the best way to cut household energy use and is already helping reduce household energy bills, while also creating jobs across the country.”
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This should be good news, and the right way to go with the climate emergency, fossil fuel reliance and energy costs up there on the agenda. As somebody playing a part in delivering these schemes though I wish the government would stop constantly re-branding them. There are so many different names being bandied around now for these grant schemes, and it is a gift to the cold-call scammers who just pick any eco-sounding name and tell people it’s the latest ‘official’ scheme. This is exacerbating a real trust issue, making it difficult to engage with people who are inclined to write off genuine marketing approaches as bogus.