This will ensure any payments to its energy supplier is funding renewable energy sources only. The green energy market can be complex, with many companies now offering competitive green electricity tariffs for both residential properties and businesses. Unfortunately, not all green electricity tariffs are equal as energy companies can purchase Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) certificates, without directly buying or generating renewable electricity, such as solar energy. Although the council switched to a green electricity tariff in April 2020, there was a potential that some REGOs provided via this tariff were being purchased in a way that may not entirely fund 100 per cent renewable generators.
Cash to help make homes more energy efficient is on hand. Image: PA NORTHWICH and Winsford residents could receive to £10,000 to help make their home more energy efficient. Cheshire West and Chester Council has secured more than £500,000 in funding from the Government s Green Homes Grant to install energy efficient measures to some of the borough’s most inefficient homes. Energy efficient measures, such as cavity wall and loft insulation, will help to reduce carbon emissions produced from heating homes. CWAC – which wants the borough to be carbon neutral by 2045 – says this will also tackle the poverty emergency by lowering fuel bills and improving the health and wellbeing of some of the borough’s most vulnerable residents.
Cllr Bryan (left) and Cllr Shore are members of CWAC s Labour cabinet CALLS have been made for two senior councillors to resign over their handling of Chester’s active travel lanes. They come after Cheshire West and Chester’s full council meeting voted last night (February 25) to ‘pause’ the lanes and ‘to commission further investigations into solutions to improve Active Travel’ in Upton and Boughton. At the meeting, Conservative Cllr Neil Sullivan called on Cllr Karen Shore and Cllr Matt Bryan to resign from their cabinet positions, with an online petition from the People Against Travel Lanes Chester campaign group echoing those sentiments.