The energy team need your help!
- Would you like a free home energy audit?
- Do you know anyone local who runs home energy audits?
- Could you write a letter of support?
The energy team are off and running, pulling together a whole raft of information for a LEAF grant bid. They’re applying for £35,000 to run over a hundred energy audits in Montpelier, picking homes that give a representative sample of the buildings here. If the bid is successful, you could be one of the lucky ones that gets a free energy audit worth over a hundred pounds! Sign up here to register your interest.
And even if you aren’t lucky enough to win a free audit, if the bid is successful the results will be available for us all to learn from, so we’ll hopefully be able to match your home to similar ones that have been audited so you can see exactly where you can start saving energy and cash too. The idea of the fund is to get communities ready to take advantage of the Green Deal that’s coming in the autumn; whatever your views are of this scheme, an energy audit of your home will help you save money, reduce your energy use and may even show you how you could make money with renewables.
They’re on a very tight deadline; if you can help them by writing a supporting letter as a resident of Montpelier, or as a business based here, it will make their application even stronger. A draft letter is here if you want some inspiration; please email yours to admin@transitionmontpelier.org.uk or post it through the door at 53 Ashley Road by Thursday 19 January. These really will make a big difference; please send one if you can!
Finally, the team have found a company to run the energy audits, but what they’d really like is to be able to pay local people to do them for their neighbours. Do you know anyone who is qualified to run an energy audit? The more the merrier!
