Billions of pounds won’t solve energy bills crisis without retrofit programme, warns UKGBC

By Carl Brown2022-09-09T06:00:00

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Liz Truss faces call for action to retrofit homes in addition to borrowing in order to freeze energy bills

The UK Green Building Council has warned Liz Truss that the energy price crisis cannot be fixed permanently without measures to improve energy efficiency of homes and other buildings.

The membership body, reacting to the new prime minister’s £150bn plan to freeze energy bills, said the prime minister was right to announce immediate relief, but measures must also be implemented to cut “wasteful energy use from our leaky homes and buildings”.

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