Sentences with phrase «home insulation scheme»

I watched Penny Wong on the 7:30 report defending the government's emissions trading scheme against the criticism, made here and elsewhere, that initiatives such as the government's home insulation scheme will have no effect except to reduce the price of permits and therefore the costs faced by large emitters.

The weakness of the scheme and the fact that emissions reductions achieved through voluntary action or the newly announced home insulation scheme don't attract credits have led to a revival of the debate over the merits of a carbon tax, as an alternative to emissions trading.

The Prime Minister had left junior climate change minister Greg Combet behind in Canberra to face the music alone over the scrapping of the botched home insulation scheme.

Not exact matches

Through an investment of # 2.3 bn per year to provide financial support for households to insulate their homes, and for local authorities to drive take up and delivery of insulation schemes, the next Labour government will drastically improve energy efficiency, bringing 4 million homes up to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C by the end of a parliamentary term.

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

It provides grants of up to # 3,500 to fund improvement measures such as insulation or central heating systems, or up to # 6000 if the home is not connected to the gas network, however, with the scheme now in its final year there is a real concern that if people don't apply now, they may miss out completely on the help to which they are entitled.

Nonetheless the next Tory government will green the tax system (after kicking green taxation into the long grass for the duration of the recession), stop the expansion of Heathrow, begin exploratory work on a high speed rail network and also oversee an innovative energy efficiency scheme that will see future reduced home energy bills pay for insulation measures now.

Sweden are decades ahead of the UK on home insulation standards; Germany have for years introduced feed - in tariffs like the government's cash - back schemes for clean energy.

Earlier this summer SEI announced that, from December, external wall insulation systems must have Irish Agrément certification to be eligible for support under the Home Energy Saving scheme.

One man who has a rare amount of experience in retrofitting heat pumps — and no commercial involvement in a heat pump company — is Tipperary Energy Agency CEO Paul Kenny, who has overseen the installation of scores of heat pumps into energy upgraded homes in the Tipperary region and beyond under the Superhomes scheme, along with other energy efficiency measures including airtightness, insulation upgrades and the installation of mechanical ventilation systems, combining cost - effective energy efficiency, comfort and indoor air quality.

For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.

However, I don't see how the concerns for insulation with respect to tiny homes is any affirmation of the tiny house movement turning into ``... a series of money marketing schemes.»

And, if home insulation is a cost - effective method of reducing emissions, which householders are neglecting for reasons such as credit constraints, the scheme could allow the target to be reached at lower social cost.

The Assistant Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, said yesterday removing insulation or installing the switches were now the only ways to ensure safety in homes fitted with foil insulation under the rebate scheme.

These obligations could be made as part of the «Green Deal», the proposed scheme under which companies will install insulation in people's homes using financial mechanisms that carry no up - front cost and save money in the long term.

Another report from Bright Blue has suggested a «Help to Improve» loan along the lines of the «Help to Buy» scheme for more extensive improvements like cavity wall insulation and solid wall insulation, as well as ISAs where the government would top up savings made for home improvements.