Cheap loans for families to get heat pumps and solar panels

HOMEOWNERS will be able to access low and zero-interest loans to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries under a flagship energy upgrades scheme.

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Low-income households and fuel-poor families struggling to pay energy bills will also receive free upgrades for insulation and clean tech backed by £5 billion of public investment, officials said.

The measures form part of the Government's “warm homes plan’; a £15bn public spending programme to deliver energy efficiency and technology upgrades to British homes, in a bid to cut bills and reliance on fossil fuels, reduce carbon emissions and lift people out of fuel poverty.