Dec 13 2005
The Energy Saving Trust is reporting on a collection of local housing companies near Coventry that have launched an affordable heating strategy.
The Whitefriars Housing Group has been particularly active over the past five years; fitting over 9,000 homes with double-glazing, 4,000 with radiator thermostatic controls and 5,000 with loft insulation, reports 24dash.com. All these measures help to conserve energy, thereby preventing climate change, reducing heating bills and still managing to keep families warm. Energy-efficiency measures such as the above are important over the winter months, particularly as the Met Office is predicting a cold spell. The group has also commissioned an energy survey at a hostel in Willenhall for 2006, to see how it can use energy more efficiently.
"I believe all organisations have a duty to consider their impact on the environment, so this new policy is a huge step in the right direction," commneted Whitefriars' asset strategy officer Ifat Shanaz.
Low-income residents in and around Coventry can currently get energy-efficiency light bulbs, which use 80 per cent less energy than conventional bulbs, provided for free by Powergen.