Government warms to renewable heat with £3m community funding

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Around 1,250 homes to benefit from government-funded rollout of solar thermal, biomass, and heat pump technologies

The government has announced the latest round of funding awards from its renewable heat scheme, confirming that 38 communities will share £3m of funding to support the rollout of domestic renewable heat...

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