More than 800,000 homes have had at least one improvement measure installed under the energy company obligation (ECO) so far, the government has said.
Today (22 August) the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released its household energy efficiency statistics on measures installed under the ECO and Green Deal schemes.
ECO is a five-year energy efficiency launched by the government in May 2015 to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty in Britain.
Measures can include installing loft insulation or repairing a broken boiler.
The latest statistics found that around 2.6 million measures were installed in around 2 million properties through both ECO and under the Green Deal framework to the end of May this year.
Of these 96 per cent (2.5 million) were delivered through ECO.
In Q1 2019 around 38,100 measures were installed through ECO in 25,300 households.
BEIS says the provisional estimated lifetime carbon savings of measures installed by the end of March this year under ECO was up to 38.0 MtCO2, with provisional estimated lifetime energy savings up to 150,600 GWh.
Geographical information is also included – up to the end of March 2019 one fifth (18 per cent) of ECO measures were in the North West (453,500) which was the highest in any region.
In Scotland 13 per cent of measures were installed and five per cent in Wales.