Elmbridge

Your Low Carbon Community

While world leaders continue to debate environmental issues on a global scale, Elmbridge Borough Council is tackling environmental issues locally. Here you can find what is happening in your local area and what your Council is doing.

The links on the left reveal case studies of Surrey homeowners who have transformed their house into a low carbon home, low carbon events in your area and low environmental volunteer groups should you wish to get involved locally.

Some of Elmbridge Borough Council's local initiatives:

Energy Efficiency

Action Surrey - Discounted loft and cavity wall insulation. Loft and / or cavity wall insulation from £129 installed - call us today for a free no obligation quote from our trusted, independent surveyors. (TBC)

Energy Efficiency Grants: Grants of up to £1,000 are offered by the Council in addition to the national grant programmes such as Warm Front . Applicants will be expected to apply for the national grants initially, where they are eligible. In consultation with the Private Sector Housing Manager, grants can be provided for cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, condensing boilers or any other measures that are considered appropriate to provide adequate insulation. Please contact Private Sector Housing in the Council for more information.

Replacement boilers: If you receive a means tested benefit and meet certain other criteria, you may qualify for a Home Repair Grant to replace your boiler.

Home Trust Loans: Elmbridge Borough Council in partnership with the Parity Trust can offer financial assistance towards meeting the cost of certain energy efficiency measures. Please contact the Private Sector Housing by calling 01372 474625 for more information

Free Home Energy Audit: Elmbridge Borough Council, in partnership with Action Surrey is offering free Home Energy Audits to its residents. If you are interested and would like to have the Council's Energy Efficiency Officer visit to conduct a free initial Home Energy Audit, please call 01372 474626 . Once a visit has been made, energy efficiency measures will be recommended to you which will provide you with the most appropriate cost savings and energy savings. With your agreement, we can also refer you to trusted organisations who will look to install energy saving measures in your home, either free of charge or at discounted prices.If you are a tenant, please note that it will usually be necessary to have your landlord's agreement to install energy saving measures in your home

Renewable Technology (Solar panels, heat pumps, biomass heating etc)

Electricity

The Feed-in Tariff is a scheme that will pay homeowners who install solar panels (or other renewable technology such as wind turbines) that generate clean electricity - for 25 years after you join the scheme. The payment is index linked and tax free.

Here's an example of how the feed-in tariff works with solar panels:

Grants are no longer available for solar panels or other renewable technology that generates electricity. The feed-in tariff is also available for wind turbines.

For more information please see our FIT factsheet

For a reliable and experienced installer please contact us on 0800 783 2503.

Heat

The Renewable Heat Incentive is a similar scheme to the Feed-in Tariff. It proposes to pay homeowners for generating renewable heat. Included under this scheme is solar hot water, heat pumps and biomass.

The RHI has not yet been settled but will see 'early adopters' of technology be given a 'Premium Heat Payment' (an upfront discount) and then from Autumn 2012 these people and others who install such technology will be paid for every kWh of heat they generate.

An example of how this could work would be:

For more information please see our RHI webpage.

For a reliable and experienced installer please contact us on 0800 783 2503.

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