Baker Homes Articles

The Green Deal is set to start in October 2024. This is at the core of the Coalition Government’s carbon reduction plans. The UK’s 25 million homes contribute to 24% of the UK’s CO₂ emissions. It is Governments’ aim to reduce these emissions by 34% in 2025 and 80% in 2050.

Air-source heat pumps can reduce all customers' winter fuel bills by 40%. This was part of a claim made by ACS Renewable Solutions which said that this was based on five customer case studies and a BRE standard house set models. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) announced that this statement was misleading to customers. It went on to state that there is no data to support this claim or the additional claim that for every unit of electricity used to power the pump only three units of heat are produced.

The Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) offers a £15m grant scheme to make the heating of homes more sustainable. It is the forerunner to the Government’s Renewable Heat Incentive and will run from 1^st August 2011 to 31^st August 2024.

The sun’s energy can be captured using electrical systems called solar photovoltaic. A key fact that may not be known is that solar photovoltaics (PV) do not need direct sunlight to generate electricity!!!

Baker Homes has won a coveted Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest organisations.