Realising net zero

Create an energy efficient home

Find out how insulation, solar panels and heat pumps can make your home more energy efficient and help make Liverpool a net zero city.

  • Feel that this needs a more definite range of definitive calls to action
  • Need to think about how it complements established content on the site around energy efficiency and the household support fund.
  • Would it be better to develop existing EE section so all the content is in one place and link out to it here as per the business pages? 
  • See also: Help in a crisis - HSF page.

How to create an energy efficient home

[How? Any local initiatives and incentives? Are there smaller realistic actions like switching to a green tariff if you cannot install a heat pump or solar panels? Thinking with such a high volume of terraced houses in Liverpool are heat pumps and solar panels viable options?]

Since domestic heating accounts for more than 30 per cent of Liverpool’s greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning to energy-efficient homes will be a game-changer.

Making your home more energy efficiency is the first step to saving money on bills and doing your bit for a more sustainable future. You can:

  • switch from a boiler to a heat pump and install larger radiators 
  • insulate windows and external door
  • add extra loft or wall insulation
  • install solar panels on your roof 

Help you can get

[Call to action is heavy on heat pumps, need more on solar and insulation to balance it out? Can we endorse stuff like the https://getenergywise.org.uk/ Homewise tool that generates a free personalised report?]

Help with heat pumps

Other sources of support

[Just included a list of a few existing pages below to get us thinking, but do we need to look at the wider offer including any central gov help? Some libraries also run session like Blue Energy drop in Allerton Library: Reduce your energy bills for free with the Government ECO 4 scheme. Find out if you qualify for free upgrades that improve the energy efficiency of your home. Blue Energy is one of the UK's leading developers of renewable energy infrastructure. Last Friday of every month, 10am-12pm. Just drop in. Should we be looking to see what's happening elsewhere in the community?]