Households will be offered a further £100m for energy efficiency improvements under a new wave of funding for the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.
Energy secretary Ed Davey announced the cash boost this morning, which comes on top of a £450m sum allocated to boost household energy efficiency over the next three years.
The Green Deal is designed to help individuals and businesses install energy efficiency improvements to their properties. Yet MPs last month said the scheme had delivered a ‘fraction’ of expected benefits, blasting the programme’s ‘confusing’ promotion.
Applications for the latest phase of the home improvement fund will open before the end of November.
Davey said today’s funding for would mean ‘more people can live in warmer, greener homes sooner’.
‘Green Deal Home Improvement Fund vouchers went like hot cakes earlier in the year and now even more people can cut their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient,’ he added.
Energy and climate change minister Amber Rudd said: ‘Over three quarters of a million homes have already had energy saving improvements installed as a result of the Energy Company Obligation and Green Deal schemes and it makes sense to help even more families install measures so that they see the benefits of lower bills and a warmer home for years to come.’
