A town in Yorkshire is to receive free advice on how to make savings on their
home energy bills.
The people of Horsforth, near Leeds, will be able to get free advice on how and where they can make savings. It is hoped the initiative will slash around £35,000 from the town's cumulative energy bills.
As a result, not only will experts visit more than 2,000 homes in the town during the next month to offer advice, but they will also be staging free drop-in energy surgeries.
These sessions are just one of the ways the trust hopes to promote more active energy conservation in the UK.
It is also supporting a new Go Greener campaign from the Scottish government which is calling on people to insulate their homes, as it avoids heat escaping through the roof.
Roseena Cunningham, Scotland's environment minister, said that
insulation alone saves around £150 per household per year in lost heat and with the average cost of insulation being around £250, homeowners will make a return on the investment within two years.
She said: "As we emerge from one of the coldest winters on record and start turning our minds to home improvements and repairs I challenge any canny Scot not to see the value in investing in insulation."
According to the Energy Saving Trust, the average UK household could make savings of around £340 a year on its total energy bills as well as saving 1.5 tonnes of carbon emissions per household from entering the atmosphere.
As the Wharfedale and Airedale Observer suggests, it can be achieved "by making some straight forward improvements".
In this case, it could be better insulation for homeowners to stop heat escaping or tips on how to drive more efficiently to avoid fewer emissions from their cars.
Experts visiting Horsforth will even share tips on ways of using renewable energy to appease the bank manager.
This means a sleepy northern town, whose main claim to fame was an appearance in the Domesday Book, may be transformed into a model of
green energy living in Britain.
