Useful Links
The Energy Saving Trust’s (EST) website is excellent: www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
The EST’s website can search for grants and offers available to insulate your home and save energy. The search takes into account your postcode, the energy saving measures you would like, your current utility company, and whether or not you are a homeowner, are over 60 and are in receipt of benefits.
Visit www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/proxy/view/full/2019/grantsandofferssearch or phone 0800 512 012.
The Government's Warm Front grants scheme can help pay for heating and insulation improvements in your privately owned or rented home, if you're receiving any of a range of benefits such as income or disability-related benefits. Visit www.warmfront.co.uk or call freephone 0800 316 2805.
Energywatch, the independent gas and electricity watchdog, compares prices to find the cheapest gas and electricity supplier for your postcode at www.energywatch.org.uk. Switching supplier can result in savings of up to £100 per year. It’s easy to do and Energywatch will talk you through the process.
The Heat Project is a utility funded project to give grants for cavity wall or loft insulation. For further details visit www.heatproject.co.uk/insulation-grants-available.php or call free 0800 093 4050.
- Bay Energy Saving Partnership work across Lancashire and Cumbria:
- Detailed energy audits of homes, small businesses and community buildings, with the option of project management to implement recommendations
- eco-workshops
- eco-schools projects, resulting in accreditation
- advice and support to access grant funding
Contact Jane Fletcher on 01524 66793 or energy.jane[at]yahoo.com
The Low Carbon Buildings Programme provides grants for installing microgeneration technologies such as solar and wind power. These are available for householders, businesses and community organisations. See www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk
The Solar Trade Association gives information about solar power, see: http://www.greenenergy.org.uk/sta/solarenergy/content.htm
The Solid Fuel Association give information about wood burning stoves, see : http://www.solidfuel.co.uk/frame/main.html
Centre for Alternative Technology probably have the best selection of books on renewable energy: http://www.cat.org.uk/
www.theyellowhouse.org.uk is a website which tells how a couple, George Marshall and his wife Annie, turned an ordinary council house into an eco house.
Switch to a green energy supplier Even if you decide not to install renewable technology now, you can still use it in it by switching to an energy supplier that invests in renewable energy, such as Ecotricity. Compare the environmental credentials, price and service ratings of all the renewable energy tariffs at: http://green.energyhelpline.com
A database of renewable, low-carbon and climate change related activities in the North West at www.climatechangenorthwest.com
Read more about climate change, at the site of International Panel on Climate Change. Its conclusion? Climate change is real, its happening, and its caused by human activity: www.ipcc.ch
Climate change for kids (and a really good website for adults too): http://tiki.oneworld.net/front.html