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Nottingham to roll out ultra-low energy homes
Nottingham City Council has secured over £5mn to roll out its ‘Energiesprong’, an ultra-low energy homes pilot scheme, which will include improvements to over 150 Nottingham City Homes’ (NCH) properties.
The scheme will tackle some of NCH’s older housing stock that is hard to heat, lifting residents out of fuel poverty, says the Council, while the environmental performance of the homes will also be improved.
Energiesprong is a whole-house renovation approach pioneered in the Netherlands. It upgrades a home with both energy saving and energy generating measures, including insulated outside walls and windows, a solar roof, and a state-of-the-art heating system. The household’s energy demand is greatly reduced and what energy is needed can mostly be generated on-site via the smart use of renewable energy technologies. Environmental performance is improved to almost net zero carbon, says the Council.
The rollout will be in two phases; Interreg NWE programme is supporting the first 17 retrofits, and a European Regional Development Funded project, Deep Retrofit Energy Model (DREM), is supporting the bulk of the rollout. The rollout follows a UK pilot which was funded by the EU funding stream Horizon 2020.
The rollout will also include energy efficiency improvements to a city school and a number of homes in Derby managed by Derby Homes. Melius Homes, the successful contractor for the pilot and the rollout tender, will continue in its role as principal contractor.
Nottingham City Homes Chief Executive, Nick Murphy, said: ‘It’s a great start to 2019 to be rolling out the Energiesprong approach to so many homes. The first pilot homes look fantastic and have really lifted the local area; this rollout will really add to the regeneration of neighbourhoods across the city.’
