Haringey flies to forefront of energy saving
Wednesday 25 April 2007
An aircraft fitted with military technology has enabled Haringey Council to become the first local authority in England to publish a detailed web study of energy loss from homes and businesses.
The council commissioned a plane fitted with a thermal infrared sensor to carry out the aerial thermographic study, giving information about heat loss from every property in Haringey.
The study, which is now available online at www.seeit.co.uk/haringey/Map.cfm has a range of benefits for the council and the Haringey community. These include:
- Residents and businesses can discover online how much energy they are losing. The council hopes this will encourage them to consider better insulation and other energy saving techniques, which in turn will contribute to Haringey's efforts to tackle climate change at a local level.
- It will help the council identify homes whose occupiers may be too poor to heat their homes or are suffering from broken heating. It can then offer them a range of free government-funded ‘Warm Front’ energy heating grants.
- The council will be able to investigate whether the properties losing least heat are empty and could be brought back into use, so helping to alleviate Haringey's housing waiting list.
Haringey Council's Executive Member for Housing, Cllr Isidoros Diakides, said:
"This single study will play a key role in helping us address three of the biggest issues currently facing Haringey - climate change, fuel poverty and housing waiting lists.
"We would urge those households which are shown to be losing excessive energy to consider installing better insulation and employing other energy saving techniques, which not only save money in fuel bills, but can also make a significant contribution to tackling climate change.
"At the same time, we will look at those properties shown to have low energy heat loss both to ensure that occupiers are receiving grants to which they are entitled and that empty homes are brought back into use wherever possible."
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