green policies

This statement and report needs a rural lens, there are a number of key challenges like the availability of appropriate power supply infrastructure which mean that in rural settings policies like this need much more careful and analysis than this article suggest. It tells us:

Households could have saved nearly £400 a year in bills during the energy crisis if the government had not scrapped a green policy on homes, according to new analysis.

Data from the Liberal Democrats, seen by The Independent, increased this figure from previous estimates to reflect the rising cost of living.

It found plans to make all new homes achieve net zero emissions would have shaved hundreds of pounds off household bills when another price cap increase will see them soar in spring.

“This is yet another example of how acting sooner on climate change can save consumers money on their bills,” Chris Venables, head of politics at the Green Alliance think tank, told The Independent.

The scrapped environmental rules would have prevented new houses from releasing a net amount of carbon into the atmosphere during day-to-day running. Among other factors, this would have been achieved through good energy efficiency – considered key to keeping bills, as well as emissions, down.