Households in one Scottish village have cut their
gas and electricity bills by £600 as a result of an
insulation programme funded by the community wind turbine.
Insulation is helping cut energy bills by over £600 for households in a community dubbed the greenest village in Scotland.
Using profits generated by a wind turbine owned by residents of Fintry,
insulation has been fitted in half of the villages 330 homes.
As a result the amount of energy the community uses has dropped from 13,000 megawatt hours (MWh) a year to 10,000MWh, reports the Herald newspaper.
This equates to savings of about £600 for residents in the village, which is not on the gas grid and so most households use LPG or heating oil.
Now the Fintry Development Trust, which administers the wind turbine and energy projects, is considering heating solutions which emit less carbon dioxide.
Gordon Cowtan of the trust told the newspaper: "We're looking at low carbon forms, whether it's wood pellet-fuelled boilers or ground source heat pumps."
The government has announced plans to make all homes in the UK near zero carbon by 2050, which could require the introduction of more small scale heat and renewable electricity projects.
