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Home Energy Saving Advice

Need help with fuel costs?

The FSA have pulled together lots of useful information on their Moneymadeclear Opens in a new window website.

Fuel poverty - when a household has to spend more than 10% of their income on fuel bills just to keep warm - is an important area of work for the Council. If you think that you fall into this category, please contact the Energy Saving Trust advice centre Opens in a new window (contact details below) to see if they can help you reduce your fuel bills. If you fall into a "vulnerable group", particularly the elderly, you may qualify for a full or partial grant to help with the costs of fitting insulation and other energy efficiency measures.

We are currently running a campaign to highlight fuel poverty issues and encourage people to get advice on improving the energy efficiency of their homes to save money. Please see our new Affordable Warmth and Fuel Poverty page.

 

Save Energy, Money and the Environment

Hambleton District Council is working in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust advice centre Opens in a new window for North Yorkshire and the Humber, run by Yorkshire Energy Partnership Opens in a new window (YEP), to offer you free, impartial and expert advice on a wide range of energy efficient measures.

The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation funded by Government to provide free and impartial advice on saving energy. Expert advisors can tell you how to save money in the home with simple energy saving tips, talk to you about generating your own energy with renewable technology and advise on driving down your fuel costs with sustainable transport options.

YEP is a not-for-profit company owned by local authorities in York and North Yorkshire and delivers projects to support householders, businesses and communities to become more sustainable.

 

Your local Energy Saving Trust advice centre can:

• Offer free and impartial advice on energy saving products and services to help reduce your carbon footprint.
• Inform you about the grants and discounts available in the area to help towards the cost of installing energy saving measures.
• Organise a free, no obligation survey for your home with an accredited local installer.
• Tell you about how to generate your own renewable energy and receive a guaranteed income through the "feed-in-tariff" payments.

For more information, contact the Energy Saving Trust advice centre:

• Call free on 0800 512 012
• Email advice@est-nyh.org.uk
• Visit the EST website Opens in a new window - for a free personalised report showing you how much energy and money you can save in your home, get a home energy check Opens in a new window
• Visit the advice centre and talk to an advisor in person at:
  
  Energy Saving Trust advice centre for North Yorkshire and the Humber
  20 George Hudson Street
  York
  YO1 6WR

 

For more information on what you can do to save energy and cut your carbon footprint see the green checklist. For more general sustainability and climate change related issues, see the Council's sustainability web pages, and contact the Sustainable Development Officer, sustainable.development@hambleton.gov.uk, or 01609 767160.