£8 Million for renewable energy in NI

This is actually a little bit of old news but I thought I would just mention it anyway. Last month the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain said Northern Ireland was leading the rest of the UK in support of green energy provision. About £8m worth of funding will be made available for homeowners who want to switch to green energy the government announced. Mr Hain said the programme would;

“stimulate renewable energy at household level and effectively initiate a programme of micro-generation development for the future”

About 4,000 grants will cover up to 50% of the cost of installing renewable energy systems, such as solar panels, small-scale wind turbines, biomass boilers and geothermal heat pumps. Also under proposed building regulation changes, the use of renewable energy in new builds will be mandatory from 2008.

Actually a nice combination of grants and ensuring renewable energy is at least thought about for new builds. It will be interesting to see what actually makes it into the building regulations.

Source green building press.

Written by ashleys on August 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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