Hundreds of millions in green grants for English homes pulled despite delays

95% of ?1.5bn set aside to improve houses unspent due to slowness in making grants and paying installersThe government is apparently withdrawing hundreds of millions of pounds from the green homes grant programme, a move condemned by the renewable energy industry as an alarming failure of its plan for a green recovery.Ninety-five per cent of the ?1.5bn pot provided for householders in England to make their homes less carbon intensive remains unspent due to long delays in giving out grants to householders and making payments to installers. Continue reading...