Thousands of people struggling to meet their rising energy costs are missing out on free and reduced cost connections to the gas network across the South, including here on the Isle of Wight.
National Energy Action (NEA) has warned an increase to the energy price cap next April could see the cost of heating the average home double. Average domestic dual fuel energy bills have already gone up by over £230 per customer and could rise by a further £550 a year.
Despite this, heating your home with a gas-fired alpha boiler is still between 3 and 4 times cheaper than heating with electricity. But thousands of people affected by these rises could avoid these costs through SGN’s Help to Heat gas connection scheme.
Since 2013, SGN has connected nearly 30,000 properties to the gas network to enable affordable heating to be provided to vulnerable households.
Through the Help to Heat scheme from SGN and delivery partner YES Energy Solutions, funding is available for a connection to the main gas network and towards a first-time central heating system, including a brand new A-rated boiler.
The Help to Heat scheme is open to qualifying residents in parts of Scotland and southern England. To find out if you’re eligible, visit www.sgn.co.uk/HelptoHeat or call our partner YES Energy Solutions on 0800 015 5174 and speak to a Help to Heat advisor
Crazy, one minute trying to do away with gas, next paying people to have it installed.
Let people have whatever is available to heat their homes, the small amount of emissions from such is NOTHING compared to a forest fire, volcano etc, and the Earth has had ice ages and very hot temperatures LONG before man was here, so stop blaming us, and let us keep affordably warm.