Energy experts to visit every home to help them go green-U.K.

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ear...-go-green.html
So the Global Warming Scam then goes to fund the Money Scam by increasing your debt. Priceless! (David Icke).

Teams of energy advisers will visit every home in the country over the next two decades in an effort to make all the buildings in Britain carbon neutral.

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Last Updated: 10:07PM GMT 12 Feb 2009

Going green: there will be fewer of these and more energy-saving bulbs under plans to make every home carbon neutral Photo: GETTY
The mass energy audits will be part of the biggest overhaul of the housing stock since switching to gas central heating forty years ago.

"The Great British Refurb" will fit every home in need of insulation in the roof or walls by 2015. By 2030 every home will be offered a "whole house" green refurbishment, including fitting renewable heat technologies like ground source heat pumps and solar panels.

Launching a consultation on the scheme, Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said teams of energy advisers would go around "house by house, street by street" to advise people how to improve their homes.

Loans would then be made available to pay for the new technologies, that can cost thousands of pounds.

It is not yet decided how the massive programme will be funded but it is expected a large amount of money will come from a levy on energy companies that will ultimately be passed onto consumers. An innovative "pay as you save" scheme will link any loan for home improvements to the house rather than the person so that when a family move the repayment passes to the next owner. This would mean people are more willing to invest in expensive technologies like a wood chip boiler.

Mr Miliband said the heat and energy package will cut electricity bills and save millions of tonnes of carbon emissions so that every home is carbon neutral by 2050.

"We cannot afford not to act," he said. "Every home must be able to access the help and technology it needs, whether it be the installation of a ground or air source heat pump, solar heating, solid wall insulation, or access to a district heating scheme.

"Most importantly, I want to ensure that help to meet the costs is available to people house by house, street by street, and that lower-income families do not miss out.!"

Environmentalists welcomed the package but criticised the delay that means most of the initiatives will negin until 2012.

The Local Government Association said consumers should not have to pay. Instead the organisation called on energy companies to fork out from massive annual profits.

[piers2210]

What a joke.

We'll pay for it one way or the other....and in the meantime the government will be able to scan your house for free, while increasing your debt.

And recouping the cost of the work from the energy saving will take decades, if ever.

Hopefully this measure won't go through before Labour are kicked out of office. But what will replace Labour? More of the same cr*p?

[Swanny]

Sorry I'm not in when they call