Study: Community wind farms could slash household heating bills by a quarter

Cecilia Keating
clock • 3 min read
Study: Community wind farms could slash household heating bills by a quarter

Research outlines myriad benefits of pairing community energy projects with a local roll out of heat pump technologies

Heating homes with heat pumps powered using community-owned wind farms could reduce heating costs by around a quarter, new research from Possible and Regen has found. A report published this morning...

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