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Home Energy Savings

Why Save Energy?

Every time we turn on our heating, switch on our lights, heat water, cook, or use any gas or electrical appliances in our homes, we may be damaging our planet by adding to the threat of global warming.

25% of the UK's carbon dioxide is generated from energy used in the home. Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. Burning fossil fuels - coal, gas, oil and petrol - either directly or to generate electricity, releases that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

By saving energy you will be saving yourself money on your fuel bills, at the same time helping to conserve our environment.

  1. Under the Home Energy Conservation ACT (1995) - known as HECA - all Councils in Scotland were made Energy Conservation Authorities. The Act required each Authority to prepare a strategy in 1997 setting out measures that would lead to significant improvements in energy efficiency in residential accommodation across all sectors of the housing stock in their area. Each Authority had also to set a local target for reducing energy consumption in the residential sector over a 10 year period from 1997. Aberdeen City Council set a target of reducing the amount of domestic energy consumption in the City by 31% by 2007. To see what progress we are making in meeting that target click here: Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA)

  2. Visit our page for more information on How you can save energy in your home.  You can also see how much heat your home is losing by viewing our Thermal Image

  3. If you are a Council tenant and want to know what energy saving measures are being carried out in the Council owned stock, visit: Energy Efficiency - Council Tenants

  4. If you are a Housing Association or Co-op tenant and want to know what the Council is doing to improve the energy savings in that stock, visit Housing Association and Co-operative Tenants 

  5. It is widely recognised that there is a link between 'cold' housing and health problems. People living in homes which are difficult, or too expensive, to heat are at an increased risk of ill health. The Council has adopted a policy aim of achieving "affordable warmth" for all householders in the City. By "affordable warmth" we mean that no-one should have to spend more than 10% of their income, after housing costs, to keep adequately warm in their home. To this end we actively promote:

  6. And we provide free Cold Alarms to householders at risk of cold related illnesses.

  7. The Victorian Tenement Project is an energy efficiency scheme for owner-occupiers, tenants of private landlords, private landlords and local authority tenants.

  8. If you want further information visit our page on where to get further advice

  9. For the latest HECA news go to: Keep Warm Keep Well