The Point and Sandwick area of Lewis is making a bid to become the first ‘LED community
in the UK’ with the installation of newer, cheaper-
LED lights can save households around £100 a year, and it is expected that 10,000 such lights will be installed over the coming five years.
The lightbulb scheme is part of a wider £375,000 energy effeciency project launched
by Point and Sandwick Trust -
Two jobs are being created with the bulk of the £375,000 funding coming from Point
and Sandwick Trust -
The Climate Challenge Fund will support the first year of the joint project.
Bright idea aims to create first eco-
31 March 2016
Every household in the area will be offered a set of LED lights as well as a energy performance assessment to establish exactly what energy improvement measures they would benefit from.
Special thermal images taken to help identify problem areas of heat loss.
Residents will then be advised on ways to save energy and money off their bills.
Fifty households will also receive insulation measures every year. These will include the ‘room in the roof’ project and insulation to internal and cavity walls, lofts, external walls and underfloors. Draught proofing will also be available. The funding for this insulation work will come from the government scheme that TIG administer.
Angus McCormack, chairman of Point and Sandwick Trust, said: “The project will prepare a complete compilation of every household in Point and Sandwick and its current and future energy needs.
He added: “A great deal will be learned from this project that will have significant implications for the rest of the UK. Never before will such a detailed set of energy related information on a community ever have been collected, and we are delighted that Point and Sandwick Trust, along with our Partners Tighean Innse Gall, are going to make it possible.”
Donald Nicholson, chairman of Tighean Innse Gall, said: “This project demonstrates
to the world what can be done by communities to make themselves more energy efficient
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