WISE Homes is a project offering support to people with ‘hard to treat’ properties where improving energy efficiency is relatively difficult.
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Traditionally energy saving schemes have focussed on lower cost, simple energy efficiency measures such as loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and gas condensing boilers.
However in Gloucestershire there are many properties with solid stone walls, no traditional loft space and/ or no access to mains gas. A large proportion of these properties are in rural areas.
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WISE Homes will provide Energy Efficiency advice and grants aimed specifically at these kinds of properties.
Home visits will be offered to carry out a FREE home energy survey and provide personalised energy efficiency advice appropriate to each property.
Grants will be available for measures such as internal wall and sloping ceiling insulation as well as for non mains gas heating systems.
This project will also promote renewable energy systems.
Measures such as solar hot water systems are especially relevant to homes using expensive fuels like LPG or oil. The project will therefore encourage the use of renewable energy sources by providing extra grants in addition to the governments Clear-skies grants for renewables.
The project is a partnership between the Severn Wye Energy Agency, Stroud District Council, Cotswold District Council and the Home Improvement Agencies, Care & Repair (Stroud) and Anchor Staying Put (Cotswolds).