Hot tips for heating

Keep the heat where you want it - keep your doors closed, draw curtains early in the evening, and tuck them behind radiators. Use "sausage dogs" or door curtains to stop draughts through doors.

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ADVICE, GRANTS AND OFFERS

Warmer Holmcroft Is your house cold? Is your heating too expensive? Do you live in the Holmcroft area of Stafford? Ask for a free home energy visit from a qualified energy assessor, using thermal imaging. Click here for more details

 

Lowdown on low-energy lightbulbs

Focus on Feed-in Tariffs

Click here for our handy guide to help you decide

 

Health Through Warmth

Do you know someone whose health is affected by a cold or damp house?

Click here for more information about possible improvement grants from npower

 

BEWARE DOORSTEP METER SCAM!!

Don't buy cut-price prepayment meter tops-up on the doorstep!
You'll end up paying twice.
For more about the Top-up Safe campaign and the
£10,000 reward for information
click here

• Renewable Heat Premium Payments
• Get a FREE home fire risk check from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Phone freephone 0800 0241 999 to book your visit from a firefighter!
• Green Deal takes shape: what to expect in 2012!
• Renewable Heat Incentive: what, when and how much? All you need to know!
• WARM FRONT: If you receive certain benefits you may be eligible for a package of measures. Click here to see if you qualify.
• Most energy companies offer FREE cavity wall and loft insulation for anyone over 70 years old.
• FREE insulation for anyone receiving income related or disability benefits
• DISCOUNTED insulation for anyone else (£150 for cavity wall insulation - typical cost)
• Note that the above deals apply to homeowners; tenants must consult their landlords first!
• LOOKING FOR BETTER DEALS on gas or electric? Click here
• SEARCH for grants and offers using the Energy Saving Trust database
• READ about 'green' energy tariffs
• LOOK FOR a better energy deal

Stafford Area Community Solar Solar PV discount scheme for residents, businesses, schools and community groups in Stafford Borough Click here for full details Tax-free, index-linked investment in clean, green energy! Lower prices and free Home Energy Survey for EPC inclusive!

News

Energy suppliers to advise on best deals

Gov't loses last-ditch appeal on FITs

Renewables consultation: FITs face slimdown in summer

Legal tussle leaves FITs in a tangle

Launch of Warmer Holmcroft scheme

Solar tariffs slashed by half

Penkside switched on to energy issues

Renewable heat incentive announced

Feed-in tariff cut for large-scale solar PV

Village celebrates 'solar-powered' hall

Green Deal promises energy efficiency revolution

 

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If everyone cycled as much as the Danes, Europe would reduce its overall carbon emissions by a quarter, according to a report by the European Cyclists Federation. The average Dane cycles nearly 600 miles per year, compared with the EU average of almost 120 miles annually, and just 46 miles per year in Britain.

SOURCE: European Cyclists Federation (http://www.ecf.com/press_release/5056/)

Home Heat Helpline

Worried about paying your heating bills? Need advice on how to save energy? This free not-for-profit helpline, established in 2005 by the Energy Retail Association, can give information about grants, benefits and payment schemes that you may be entitled to. PHONE: 0800 33 66 99

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