The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that it will be closing the Low Carbon Building Programme, to new applicants. Introduced by the labour government, to date the programme has provided over 20,000 grants, with over half going to applicants seeking to install Microgeneration equipment.
Citing government cuts of £6 billion to departmental spending over the next year, as the reason behind the move, The Department of Energy and Climate Change has reassured members that outstanding agreements will be honoured.
Meanwhile, it is hoped that £3 million will be saved by immediately closing the programme to new applicants, with further savings being achieved over the course of the year by cutting or slowing down planned expenditure.
Given the challenging and costly agenda of developing renewable heat and decarbonising the heating sector, the cuts are a serious blow to advocates of green technology.
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