GLASGOW City Council has accepted an award of £6.845 million from the Scottish Government to help make homes in the city more energy efficient.
The funding will be used across the 2024/25 financial year, with homes in Pollok, Easterhouse, and Barmulloch set to benefit from the work carried out through the energy efficient Scotland area based schemes (EES:ABS) programme.
The programme takes an area-based approach to combating fuel poverty and improving energy efficiency, with the main objective being to provide funding to assist owner-occupiers and households living in private rented homes, who are either in or at risk of fuel poverty, to install energy efficiency measures through implementing a ‘fabric first’ approach – mainly external wall insulation.
This approach helps reduce energy usage and costs, enabling eligible households to improve the energy performance of their homes to achieve an EPC rating of C or better by 2030.
Councillor Ruairi Kelly, convener for housing at Glasgow City Council, said, “The measures delivered through this programme are making homes in Glasgow more energy efficient, helping people and families with their energy bills, and reducing emissions. The continued funding of the programme will spread these benefits to even more households in the city.”
