Gas-elec welcomes boiler scrappage scheme
The Government scheme, which goes live on the 18th of January 2010, entitles homeowners who replace G rated boilers with an A rated boiler to a £400.00 allowance.
In Chancellor Alistair Darling's December pre-budget report he announced that up to 125,000 households with working boilers with the lowest G rating in England can apply for vouchers from the Energy Saving Trust towards A rated boilers or renewable heating systems such as a biomass boiler or heat pump.
He explained: "Each inefficient boiler adds over £200 to household bills and one tonne of carbon to the atmosphere.
"While the Government's scheme targets a specific group of people, it disqualifies a huge sector of the population who have for example an E rated boiler and would like to replace it with a B rated boiler," says John Davidson, managing director of gas-elec.
"Homeowners in this situation would not qualify for the Government's £400.00 allowance."
However, unlike the Government's offer, gas-elec's g-warm scrappage plus+ campaign is available to all customers - regardless of the boiler's rating.
"Homeowners will receive £400.00 cash back when the job is completed and paid. There is no limit on the boiler's rating and the homeowner can decide from a range of boilers, which one they would like to replace it with. The campaign will run in tandem with the Government's scheme," adds John.
In addition, gas-elec is giving the g3 package free of charge to all homeowners who utilise the gas-elec g-warm scrappage plus+.
"The g3 is gas-elec's Big Money-Saving Power Deal, which offers three additional great money-saving tools to start saving £s today.
"We will give this to homeowners free of charge and entitles customers to a further £400.00 in savings," adds John.
"The g3 is made up of the following: g-save economiser: save between 10-31% off your gas bill e-save electricity monitor: save up to 15% off your electricity bill gas-elec Compare: switch to the best energy deal on the market."
