There are now 1.5 million solar panels on homes across the UK. As well as saving you money on your energy bills, solar panels can also earn you cash. And don't worry, panels can still generate some electricity on gloomy days, vital when the weather's as dull as dishwater

Insulating your loft, attic or flat roof is an effective way to reduce heat loss and reduce your heating bills. Installed correctly, loft insulation should pay for itself many times over in its 40-year lifetime.

If your home was built before the 1920s, it's likely to have solid walls. Homes with solid walls can lose up to twice as much heat as those with modern cavity walls. We'll add two layers of insulation to your home's exterior. The first layer will keep your house nice and warm, and the second outer layer will protect your home from the weather and give it a fresh new look.

Beads or fibre are used to insulate cavity walls; both materials provide fantastic energy efficiency properties to help trap the heat you've generated in your home.

Underfloor insulation allows you to insulate the gap under a suspended floor. This helps to keep the heat in and stop drafts from coming from below your house. Most suspended timber floors comprise simply of floorboards laid on top of timber floor joists

Internal wall insulation is done by fitting rigid insulation boards to the wall, or by building a stud wall filled in with insulation material such as mineral wool fibre.

The scheme requires that the fabric of a property (walls, floors and roofs) are considered before replacing a heating system. Upgrading your old boiler with a more efficient model will help make your home more energy efficient. Boilers, like other domestic appliances, have efficiency ratings of A-G. Modern boilers have to be A-rated and show it in their literature.

A storage heater, also known as a night storage heater, is a type of electric heater that usually makes the most of off-peak electricity. It spreads the heat around the room using what's known as convection currents. As the hot air from the heater rises, it pulls in cooler air. In turn, this gets warmed up by the heater. And the cycle goes on, evenly spreading heat around the room.

A heat pump is essentially an outside boiler. It captures heat from outside and moves it into your home, using electricity to do so.
There are many benefits to heating your home with an air source heat pump, such as high efficiency – an air source heat pump can be over 300% more efficient than a standard gas boiler, potentially saving you money on your heating bills