Category / Energy Efficiency / Fuel Poverty / SHDF Wave 1
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Incommunities: ‘Lightening the Load’
In recent weeks, we’ve been supporting a number of initiatives designed to help ordinary families through the cost-of-living crisis and, in particular, with the challenges faced during the cold winter months. The…
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Fuel Poverty Awareness Today
Friday 2 December was National Energy Action’s Fuel Poverty Awareness Day. This annual event highlights the scale of the problem within the UK, its impacts on ordinary people and the work that is…
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£1.5bn of Energy Efficiency Funding
At the end of September 2022, the UK government announced additional funding for Phase 2 of the Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) scheme. Worth up to £700 million, it will operate in tandem…
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New Energy Efficiency Funding
On 23 September, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng outlined the key measures contained in the government’s ‘special fiscal event’, and released further details in a new document, The Growth Plan…
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SDHF Wave 2 Timeline
On Monday 13 June, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held an event for local authorities, combined authorities and registered providers of social housing. It set out to explain…
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SBS Now a FENSA Approved Installer
In June 2022, SBS was declared a FENSA-Approved Window and Door Installer. The installation of energy-efficient doors and glazing has been a big part of our work for many years now, so…
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SBS Appointed Again on EEM Framework
In March 2022, Efficiency East Midlands (EEM) wrote to confirm that SBS’s submission for the EEM0046 Insulation and Associated Works Framework had been successful on all lots. The three lots comprise: Lot…
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SBS Response to Spring Statement 2022
On 23 March 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, released his Spring Statement, which included an announcement about a new VAT reduction on energy efficiency measures. Released on the same…
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Climate Expert Calls for Faster Insulation
On 10th February, the BBC carried an article focusing on comments made by Chris Stark, head of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, who called for faster progress on domestic insulation. Key messages from…
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SHDF Wave 1 Announcements
On 7th February, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy announced the names of the 69 local authorities that had made successful bids for £179 million allocated via Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave…
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Fusion 21 Decarbonisation Framework
In January 2022, SBS received written confirmation that its bid for Lot 1 of the £750m Fusion 21 Decarbonisation Framework had been successful. Lot 1 is titled ‘Whole House Decarbonisation,’ and, in…
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MP Inspects Green Homes Grant LAD Schemes
In late December 2021, Lee Rowley MP, representative of North East Derbyshire, visited a series of homes recently improved by SBS under the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) scheme. Mr…
