Residents of Driffield can apply for a Government energy efficiency scheme to reduce carbon emissions and lower household fuel costs.
The Green Deal aims to help homeowners better insulate their houses and offers advice on environmentally friendly home-heating, including solar panels and wood pellet boilers.
An assessment is made of a home in order to identify improvements to ensure lower energy bills, and then the homeowner chooses a Green Deal provider to carry out the work.
Mike Jackson, of local business MJ Energy Services, said: “The Green Deal is a great new opportunity for people in our area. All to often even when a homeowner can see that to be more energy efficient will save them money in the long run they don’t have the money to pay the initial cost of installation so lose out.
“The Green Deal gets over this problem by making it effectively free to have the house upgraded to a high energy efficiency standard. The cost is paid back out of savings they will make.”
For more information visit www.gov.uk