New Scheme Launched to Insulate Britain

A new scheme has been launched in collaboration with businesses and the government to increase insulation in British Homes. The “Insulate Today” plan is part of the “we will if you will” campaign and is being backed by the Energy Saving Trust along with Accenture, Aviva, HSBC, Sainsbury“s ACT ON CO2 and EDF Energy. The scheme will include:

Leave the car at home HeatingSave shaves a quarter from heating bills

Average petrol prices spiralled to a record high of 120p a litre this month – and went even higher in remote communities. As well as ingenious individual and collective schemes (Liftshare.com promotes the use of car pools), HeatingSave is a more straightforward method of cutting a quarter from your fuel bills.

Home Boiler Control system reduces domestic carbon footprint

Manchester United footballer Gary Neville has submitted plans for a subterranean £6m carbon-zero home. It is due to go up next to the 12-bedroom property that he and his wife have already constructed on the site of the hamlet he owns in Harwood, in the Lancashire Pennines. The defender commissioned one of the country’s leading architects to come up with the design.

Savings from central heating management help get green vote

The new coalition government is almost literally banking on the green vote as part of initiatives announced in the Queen’s speech. As well as promising a new energy bill in the next parliament, the Conservative and Liberal alliance said it would set up a green investment bank so that householders will be entitled to borrow money to pay for carbon-reducing measures. The idea is called a “pay-as-you-save” approach. Households would repay the loan using money saved through lower energy bills.

Over 16 million UK households could use HeatingSave’s PC software

The Office for National Statistics have said that over 16 million households in the UK now have an Internet access, up by about 10% on 2007. With every Internet access goes a PC, a PC that could be running the latest HeatingSave software and reducing the cost of central heating bills.

Fuel Poverty on the rise this winter

Concerns are growing that more and more people are going to be pushed into fuel poverty this winter. This was likely to have happened because of the rising cost of fuel but has been accelerated by the recession and in particular the sudden and increasing rise in unemployment. Some sources say this will affect hundreds of thousands more households.

Home Information Packs (Hips) and Heating Save

Home Information Packs (Hips) are compulsory in England and Wales. They were introduced to give buyers more information and to preventing sales from falling through. Although the National Association of Estate Agents are calling for them to be slimmed down, they still want an Energy Performance Certificate to be included.

Oil back over 75 dollars a barrel

Crude oil prices have hit a high for the year at $75.17 a barrel today, before edging back slightly. The rally comes amidst a general sentiment in the world that the worst of the recession is over and economic output has turned the corner; with some sort of recovery on the way. Evidence of this has been a reduction in China”s declining output and the strengthening of output from some Euro Zone countries. A weakening US dollar has also made oil cheaper when purchased with other currencies – all except the UK which has seen the pound slide against the greenback.

How to cut homes and businesses carbon footprints

Homes or business wanting to cut their carbon footprint can enlist the help of HeatingSave, using its low-cost energy management and boiler controller device that is proved to give more efficient fuel usage. Heating buildings result in carbon dioxide emissions, and the more efficient your heating system is, the more your carbon footprint will be reduced.