Twenty-nine rural Yorkshire Housing customers have benefitted from energy efficiency upgrades to help tackle fuel poverty and reduce carbon emissions.
This month in Duggleby, North Yorkshire we have seen the completion of 15 heat pumps fitted since the project began in November 2023. Yorkshire Housing has been working with E. ON as its delivery partner to install these upgrades, which will help bring customers out of fuel poverty by increasing the energy performance of their homes.
Older homes in rural places were targeted for the investment and the work in this area, paid for partly by the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, aims to tackle the poor insulation and inefficient heating systems powered by coal and oil.
Customers Ken Jarvis and Angela Pooleman have switched from coal-fired heating to an air source heat pump. They said: “It was a week of installation. We’ve now got tall radiators, and this looks different inside the house.
“The air source heat pump settings are inside the house. We got help to programme to what we needed. The unvented water tank means we have hot water all of the time – this is an improvement on what we had before.”
The couple have also had solar panels installed and improvements in insulation at their home and said they have noticed the difference in their energy bills. Ken said: “We were spending £50 per week on coal in the winter so it’s saving us money as well. We’ve got four solar panels up now and there will be four more installed and we’re happy to have that work done.”
A total of £887,000 has been invested in projects to improve the energy efficiency of our homes in the villages of Duggleby and Amotherby, North Yorkshire.