Blair promotes energy audits for households

British households may be given state-subsidised individual carbon audits on their homes to encourage them to cut their own contribution to global warming, Tony Blair will say today.

Nearly 30% of the UK’s carbon emissions come from households, and the government has been looking at ways by which residents can be encouraged to have energy checks. The government is calling the drive One Planet Living.
Numerous environmental groups, including the Energy Saving Trust – which manages energy schemes on behalf of the government – provide ready-reckoner energy audits, but ministers are looking at a service that is coordinated and centrally funded. It had been intended that a carbon energy efficiency audit would be included in the new home starter packs. The collapse of the starter pack has left ministers without an obvious vehicle to persuade households to improve their energy efficiency.

Guardian