Search:

Services

Energy Efficiency

The Environmental Performance programme is Yorkshire Housing's plan to assist our customers with their fuel bills by improving the energy efficiency to their homes. This is one of our main priorities for our customers and a key way of achieving affordable warmth. There are a number of ways of doing this:

1. Loft Insulation

   We are upgrading loft insulation in homes heated by electricity or solid fuel. This will increase thermal efficiency: homes will be warmer and fuel bills will be reduced.

2. Cavity Wall Insulation

   We have now installed cavity wall insulation to over 8,000 of our homes and we are now working on a programme to complete cavity insulation to all homes in 2010.

3. Solid Wall Homes

   Homes that do not have cavity walls (usually pre-1940) will benefit from highly efficient central heating boilers, together with other insulation improvements.

4. Renewables

   We are piloting renewable energy technologies where there is no gas in an area, to bring about affordable warmth. Our first priority is in housing for older people. We have mainly used ground source and air source heat pumps. These are still fairly new technologies, so we are working with customers and energy providers on several projects, to understand how and where best to use them.

5. Affordable Warmth

   Affordable warmth is defined as when a household needs to spend less than 10% of its income on total fuel use, in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth.

The Programme

This year, we are spending £1.4 million. To find out if environmental work is planned for your home this year, please click on this link and search by postcode.

For some useful tips on how to save energy and money, take a look at our Energy Saving Tips

Planned Works
Customer Service Standards
read more →