'Renewable Energy Project of the Year' award for social housing ground source heating project
Posted 13.06.24
BusinessGreen: Further reading
Heat pump specialist Kensa Contracting has won the Business Green 'Renewable Energy Project of the Year' award for its retrofit project for Thurrock Council.
In a hugely competitive category filled with exceptional entries, Kensa edged it thanks to a 'really powerful' project that demonstrated how heat pumps can slash emissions from hard to decarbonise properties and reduce bills for households facing fuel poverty.
Costly electric storage heater in 273 tower block homes were replaced with low-carbon networked ground source heat pumps, which has led to energy bills reduced by as much as 66%.
The judges praised an 'excellent strategy, thoughtfully executed' that is delivering modern green heating systems to hundreds of homes.
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Housing associations can underpin the next government's warm homes ambitions
Posted 03.06.24
National Housing Federation: Further reading
The National Housing Federation (NHF) is calling on all political parties to commit to a renewed and bolstered Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.
In his blog, Kevin Garvey, Head of Member Relations at the NHF, highlights the urgent need to address the 2050 legally binding net zero targets.
He goes on to say, the importance of addressing this isn't just about the climate. It is also about delivering permanently lower bills, warmer homes and greater energy security in our volatile world.
He describes the role of housing associations as 'a bedrock of this national mission', illustrated by the success of the current Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund among the government's housing retrofit programmes.
The key theme of his blog is that housing associations are uniquely placed to offer the ambition, scale, collaboration and long-term certainty to deliver retrofit funding and support the next government to get the nation on track to meet the net zero target.
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