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Home Energy Masterplan – a useful decision making tool when buying a house
By David Shewan October 4th, 2013
While the majority of our clients are homeowners looking to improve the energy efficiency of their existing property, we have recently seen an increase in the uptake of our Home Energy Masterplan services from forward-thinking potential buyers. As gas and electricity prices rise...
Why pay for our Home Energy Masterplan service when there are free energy advice tools online?
By David Shewan October 4th, 2013
There are various online tools, which anyone with a spare ten minutes can use to create a model of the energy use within their home. While we see these as a good way to promote energy efficiency and open peoples eyes to...
This week our Business Development Manager, Richard Griffiths, had his article “Creating a Low-Carbon Home of Your Own” published in Blue and Green Tomorrow‘s “The Guide to Sustainable Homes 2013“. Here the article is reproduced with their kind permission. With...
It’s been a long time coming but it appears the Renewable Heat Incentive is finally, almost here. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has today announced the tariff levels to be paid to homeowners installing low carbon heating technologies...
by Roger Hunt Retrofitting a home to make it more energy efficient and green is both satisfying and worthwhile, or at least it should be. Ideally the process cuts energy bills, reduces carbon emissions and makes the building more comfortable...
This weekend’s Telegraph saw Parity’s Home Energy Masterplan service go “head to head” with a Green Deal assessment. We surveyed the home of Telegraph journalist Sarah Lonsdale, who was interested to find out what advice was available to help her...
Here at Parity, we are getting more and more calls from people that start the conversation with some variation on the theme of “is the Green Deal any good for me?” Given the bad press it’s had over recent weeks...