British Gas bags £200m contract to makeover North East homes

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Warm Up North scheme aims to retrofit 50,000 properties through the Green Deal and ECO

British Gas has won a £200m contract to deliver the UK's largest regional Green Deal programme, which should see 50,000 homes and businesses in the North East of England given energy efficiency makeovers....

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