Glasgow Residents Helped to Go Green

Residents in Glasgow who are finding their heating bills a little steep may be set to benefit from a new team of advisors created to help householders save energy.

The advisers are known as the Home Energy Advice Team (G. Heat) and will help give advice on how to make properties more energy efficient to reduce carbon emissions.

Special ‘surgeries’ will be set up as a way to deliver the advice, at venues such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, to help encourage more people to take up green measures that can help contribute to long term energy savings.

Measures to be recommended include double glazing, which can help to reduce heat lost through windows by half – amounting to around £135 savings each year. Other measures such as loft insulation, energy efficient boilers and cavity wall insulation will also be recommended.

Councillor George Ryan said that reduced family incomes and unemployment, down to the recession, mean that there are around 105,000 households in Glasgow currently living in fuel poverty which is ‘totally unacceptable’.

He added that launching G. Heat should be seen as a major step in helping to eradicate this fuel poverty – as a number of different agencies have all come together to help tackle the problem.

Research recently taken by the price comparison website gocompare.com has shown that many people throughout the whole of the UK are currently finding it difficult to meet the costs of their energy bills.

According to the study, around a quarter of all people left their houses cold in the winter to help keep costs down.