Social Housing Net Zero Progress Report Q2 2024
Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund Progress Reports Quarter 2, 2024
Project Title: Hill Road Net Zero Heat Project
Project Organisation: West of Scotland Housing Association
Technology Type(s): ASHP, Solar PV and Battery Storage
Location(s): Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire Council
Grant Value: £569,665
Completion Date: Projected March 2025
Project Headline: Project installing ASHPs, solar PV and battery storage to 36 sheltered housing properties in Cumbernauld
Project Description:
The project includes a mix of single storey, semi-detached and terraced bungalows across a sheltered housing site built in 1993. Tenants are primarily over the age of 60 or living with a disability. The majority of tenants are experiencing fuel poverty and struggling to heat their homes.
The properties currently have expensive to run storage heaters and will benefit from clean heating via ASHPs for each individual property. The project will install solar PV panels and battery storage, which will enable the generation of zero carbon electricity to the properties, reducing the amount of electricity that needs to be imported from the grid, therefore lowering energy bills and reducing carbon emissions.
Properties already benefit from cavity wall insulation and loft insulation, all up the required standard. In addition, all properties are fully double glazed (with current windows installed in 2018) and have low energy lighting fitted across all fixed outlets. This makes these properties perfectly primed to install clean heating and maximise these benefits.
The project will include a wraparound package of support including energy and tariff advice designed to reassure tenants and ensure they are able to operate their new systems and optimise their overall efficiency.
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