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Leeds LEP secures £5 million towards energy efficiency schemes

The Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership has been successful in securing almost £5 million of Green Deal Communities funding to deliver energy efficiency schemes to households across the region.

The £4.94 million has been awarded from the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s £80 million Green Deal Communities funding programme which was set up to support local authorities run street-by-street campaigns to accelerate uptake of the Green Deal across the country.

The funding will deliver subsidised wall insulation and other secondary measures such as glazing, loft insulation, heating improvements, using existing contracts to households in Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield.

In the second phase, 1,000 households across the entire City Region will be able to access £750 voucher on a first come basis, to be redeemed against the cost of Green Deal Assessments and the cost of works. This phase is likely to commence in autumn 2014.

This funding supports the LEP’s strategic priority of building a resource smart city region and creating a lean, resource efficient economy, underpinned by a 21st Century energy infrastructure.

Paul Hamer, Chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership’s Green Economy Panel welcomes the funding to the region: “This funding provides a boost to our domestic energy saving and job creation ambitions and will help to kick start the new Leeds City Region wide Green Deal Scheme to be available from October.

“By creating new, energy-efficient show homes in each Local Authority area, we can showcase how households can save energy and reduce their bills, realising further benefits for the City Region.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .