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Energiesprong comes to Nottingham
The next phase of a scheme to turn hard-toheat council houses in Nottingham into ultralow energy homes is underway.
Nottingham is the first place in the UK to pilot the whole-house renovation approach known as Energiesprong, with ten homes successfully completed and a further 17 now underway.
Houses in Sneinton are receiving improvements to tackle some of the city’s housing stock that is hard to heat, and lifting residents out of fuel poverty. The project will be rolled out to 138 properties throughout the city, managed on the council’s behalf by Nottingham City Homes. The aim is to make the houses warmer and reduce energy bills for tenants, and to improve the environmental performance of the homes, helping towards Nottingham’s ambition to become carbon neutral by 2028.
The Energiesprong approach, pioneered in the Netherlands, upgrades a home with energy-saving and energy-generating measures, including highly insulated outside walls and windows, a solar roof, and a stateof- the-art heating system. The end result is homes that are almost net zero carbon.
Photo: Nottingham City Homes
News Item details
Journal title: Energy World
Countries: UK -
Organisation: Nottingham City Council
Subjects: Energy efficiency, Energy consumption, Carbon management in buildings
