Surrey’s domestic energy efficiency service, Action Surrey, has reached a major milestone after completing the 500th energy efficiency measure installation as part of its ‘Green Jump Surrey’ scheme.
Action Surrey delivers the Green Jump Surrey initiative on behalf of a consortium of 10 Surrey local authorities, including Waverley Borough Council. The scheme launched in late 2020 after Action Surrey was awarded £9.2m of government funding to deliver home energy efficiency retrofits for low-income households, up to the value of £15,000 per property.
The fund has already helped over 500 Surrey households, including 47 in Waverley, to receive the energy efficiency measures most suitable to needs of their property, with many more residents set to benefit. So far, a projected £100,000 will be wiped from fuel bills each year with the average household saving £249. This is almost 5,000 kWh of energy or 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, saved per household.
Councillor Steve Williams, Waverley Borough Council Portfolio Holder for Environment and Sustainability, said: “As a council working hard to cut back on its own carbon emissions and supporting the move towards being net-zero carbon by 2030, I am so pleased a number of our residents took advantage of the scheme to create warmer, greener and cheaper homes to run.”
Whilst the scheme is closed for new applicants, home upgrades are still ongoing and many more Surrey households will benefit from Green Jump Surrey before it closes fully at the end of this year.
For more information on the project please visit the Green Jump Surrey website.
To take a look at Waverley Borough Council’s Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, please go to our sustainability and conservation webpage.