External Enveloping and Energy Efficiency Improvement Works

Denbighshire Housing are committed to reducing their tenants’ fuel bills and improving the insulation of our homes. To help, during the summer, we successfully completed our first energy efficiency retrofit programme in Meliden. The programme has delivered external improvements to 55 homes in Ffordd Ty Newydd and neighbouring estates within the area.

As part of the contract, and with the help of the Welsh Government’s Retrofit grant, they have also installed a number of innovative energy efficiency measures within these homes. This has included integrated solar PV panels, external wall insulation and battery technology. We’ve also replaced the roofs, render and guttering to each house.

This investment is really important, and one, of only a few pilot programmes in Wales. We were able to install sensors in the homes to create a system known as Intelligent Energy System (IES). The sensors monitor the temperature and humidly of the homes, making them better for you to live in. They also help us track our progress in reducing the carbon footprint of the Denbighshire Housing stock. The data retrieved by the IES system also provides information about the amount of off grid energy produced by each house, which reduces your energy bills.

The programme was delivered in partnership with Sustainable Building Services, who have now worked with Denbighshire Housing on several high profile investment projects. We intend to roll out our next phase of works over the next few months, which will see a further 55 properties improved in Rhyl. Surveys are being done and we hope to deliver similar energy efficiency works here.

A further 600 IES systems will be installed in homes across Denbighshire, where we plan to deliver improvements in the next 3 – 5 years, as part of our next external enveloping framework.

For more information, visit http://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/