by Nikki Brown | Aug 5, 2022 | Green Finance
The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has announced a partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to trial and scale innovative financing solutions for home energy efficiency improvements. The collaboration means that thousands of people across...
by Nikki Brown | Jul 29, 2022 | Retrofitting, Sustainable Development
A Greater Manchester based housing association, First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO), has secured a £95m funding package from Santander UK to support its development programme and improve the energy efficiency of existing homes. The funding from Santander UK enables FCHO,...
by Nikki Brown | Jun 14, 2022 | Retrofitting, Smart Energy
A new independent service backed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority has launched, to offer support creating more energy efficient homes in the city-region. Almost every building in the UK has the potential to use less fuel for heating, lighting and...
by Nikki Brown | May 30, 2022 | Retrofitting
Manchester City Council is set to receive £4.9m in government funding to help reduce carbon emissions of council-owned buildings. As part of the third phase of the government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, which aims to cut emissions by 75% from 2017 to 2037,...
by Ryan Johns | Mar 25, 2022 | Retrofitting
The majority of works to cut climate change-causing carbon emissions from council-owned buildings under a £19m scheme have now been completed. The programme is seeing 13 buildings across the city benefit from a combination of energy efficiency measures, renewable...