Southern Electric now marks fourth year of supporting Aspire Housing with continued grant funding to improve its housing. Southern Electric’s managing agent Sustain Ltd has engaged with Aspire during the last four years. Throughout this period almost £350,000 has been given to Aspire to help them make homes more comfortable and energy efficient.
In the last year alone, for instance, 144 homes have benefited from external wall insulation, almost 600 have new boilers, and 83 have switched to more efficient types of heating. Aspire Housing has also fitted new loft insulation in other homes.
Southern Electric’s energy efficiency manager, Stephen Millward, said: “It’s very important that we take a responsible approach to providing the energy people need – and part of that approach involves encouraging customers to use energy carefully and reducing subsequent CO2 emissions.
“Up to 25 percent of heat is lost through the roof and up to 35 per cent through the walls. Insulating homes gives the biggest savings on energy bills, and this is why we’ve worked with Aspire to introduce improvements to people’s homes. Decent loft insulation, for instance, will save anything up to £220 a year*, and cavity wall insulation up to £160 a year*, so you can imagine that while we have been operating this scheme, these types of measures have saved households in North Staffordshire thousands of pounds.”
Aspire Housing Project Surveyor, Dave Mason, said: “These works are part of our long term commitment to improving tenants’ homes.
“We are continuing to work with Southern Electric this year, and plan to deliver sustainable energy efficiency through various forms of improvements to our properties on behalf of our customers, in order to continue reducing CO2 emissions and energy bills.”
Sustain Ltd’s Social Housing Team Manager, Katie Hardidge, said ‘’We have developed a long-term relationship with colleagues at Aspire to understand and meet their needs in terms of policy drivers, fuel poverty reduction and climate change mitigation. We hope to continue the relationship with Aspire and Southern Electric to ensure these needs continue to be fulfilled both now and in the future.”
