The government has announced that a
green energy revolution will sweep across Britain over the next decade, with up to seven million households set to benefit from eco upgrades.
Around one-quarter of the UK's energy consumption is used up by residential properties.
Warm Homes, Greener Homes Strategy is a project devised by the Department of Energy and Climate Change which aims to reduce output in homes by 29 per cent by 2020.
The scheme is designed to help people use less energy to heat and light their home, as well as power appliances, with
lower home energy bills the intended result.
According to the department, simply adding effective
insulation to walls can cut home energy bills by £380 a year.
Ed Miliband, energy and climate change minister, says: "The Warm Homes, Greener Homes Strategy will remove the deterrent of upfront costs and reduce the hassle of the move to greener living.
"Making homes more energy efficient will help protect people from upward pressure on bills, tackle climate change and make us less reliant on imported energy."
The strategy is to be introduced in three stages - the first of which deals with installing insulation in six million homes by 2015.
This tactic will follow on into stage two, which aims to insulate all cavity walls and practical lofts, also by the end of 2015.
Finally, the government intends to have given seven million homes an eco upgrade and to have installed smart meters in every house across the country by 2020.
Another benefit of the project comes in the form of employment, with some 65,000 positions to be created and reliant upon green energy within the decade.
Warm Homes, Greener Homes Strategy should eliminate one of homeowners' greatest problems with green energy - initial cost.
Last week, Duncan Hayes, editor at Build It Magazine, claimed the size of the upfront outlay on green energy is putting people off.
