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Energy efficiency 'attracts plenty of help'
30/06/10
Edited by Bob Witham.Householders keen to adopt energy efficiency measures as a way of reducing their bills may be able to benefit from a number of different help schemes.
According to Mark Todd, director of advice site energyhelpline.com, there are a variety of initiatives to raise the energy performance of UK homes.
This particularly applies to the types of procedures capable of raising efficiency of older properties, he suggests.
Meanwhile, with governments both in the UK and abroad facing targets for adopting green energy by 2020, he adds that major schemes are likely to continue to be subsidised through green taxes within household utility bills.
"Certainly, there is up to somewhere between £50 and £100 of green taxes in a typical household bill," he says.
However, Mr Todd notes that light and heat are not luxuries and no family can live without them.
As such, raising the energy efficiency of a home could be a means by which to combat any increase in these so-called green taxes in the years to come.
