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Birmingham City Council has launched a scheme it hopes will create around 270 new jobs and apprenticeships and help the council meet its target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2026.
The Green New Deal, which is being piloted in four districts of the city, aims to make homes and businesses more energy efficient by fitting solar panels, new boilers and insulation. Local strategic partnership Be Birmingham and the Government’s Working Neighbourhoods Fund are backing the scheme with £1.19 million in funding.
Up to 25,000 homeowners and 1,000 businesses in Aston, Lozells, Northfield and Newtown will be offered the retrofitting work. The council says the scheme will create an estimated 170 apprenticeships and a further 111 jobs if 5,000 homeowners sign up to it.
Eligible homeowners, such as those over sixty years old and those with young children, will be able to apply for grants and subsidies to carry out the work, while others will be able to take out loans repayable over an agreed number of years using savings made on energy bills or profit made from selling excess energy back to the national grid.
The council said it will consider expanding the scheme across the city if it is successful.
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