Tandridge

Your Low Carbon Community

While world leaders continue to debate environmental issues on a global scale, Tandridge 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 Tandridge Borough Council's local initiatives:

Scheme 1

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.

Scheme 2

The Surrey Hills Wood Fuel can now direct you to locally sourced wood to produce quality fuels for use in domestic and commercial wood fired boilers. Can also provide lots of additional information on installing wood fired boilers

Scheme 3

Home Repair Assistance - is available for eligible persons over 60 who get a means tested benefits or who are on low incomes and to persons under 60 verified as having long-term disability. Help is available for essential repairs, energy efficiency measures, fire detection and security installations. The nominal upper limit is £5,000. This money is paid in the form of a long term interest - free loan repayable when the property is sold.

Scheme 4

The HouseProud equity release scheme offers access to risk-free loans designed to meet the needs of older or disabled home owners who need repairs or alterations to their homes.

Scheme 5

Care & Repair Agency helps older or disabled people with house repairs, improvements or adaptions such as Central heating.Energy conservation.

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.

• Low carbon homes in your area
• Low carbon events in your area
• Visit Surrey's Eco Show Home