While Australian politics is still locked in deeply negative mode on home insulation stimulus spending, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has a new shining vision to go beyond insulation in a major way. This includes a plan for substantial ‘eco upgrades’ on about 7 million homes – nearly as many as the entire Australian housing stock of approximately 8.3 million homes – by 2020. UK DECC says: ‘Domestic energy efficiency is good for fuel bills, good for the fight against climate change and good for our national energy security. That is why, in the Low Carbon Transition Plan, the Government sets out our ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from households by 29% by 2020 consistent with our carbon budgets set under the Climate Change Act.’ Click here for more….
UK leads way on ‘Warm and Green’ homes
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