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.

Environmental and anti-fuel poverty campaigners welcomed the new plan but called for more action and funding to end the “scandal” of people living in cold, damp homes and struggling to pay energy bills.