Education is key to energy efficiency according to new Head of Business and Social Housing at npower

Energy supplier, npower has strengthened its social housing team with the appointment of Chris Wall as head of its Business and Social Housing division which provides M&E services including plumbing, heating, renewables and electrical installations. This senior appointment increases npower?s support for the sector at a time when energy efficiency is an ever increasing priority for social landlords and tenants.

Chris takes up his role with more than twenty years? experience in the energy industry. He joined npower in 2010, working with social landlords, managing npower?s installations, repair and maintenance contracts, so brings a wealth of industry insight to the new role.

As head of npower?s Business and Social Housing division, Chris will be leading the team in delivering npower?s partnership approach to working with social landlords. As he explains: ?npower is focused on taking a holistic approach to energy efficiency through funding and installing the most energy efficient products. To support this, awareness and education programmes are equally important, so tenants understand how this technology works in their home.

?This could be through making tenants aware of how their behaviour affects their energy bills, to educating the next generation through our schools? programme - ?Climate Cops?.

?While energy efficiency is a key priority, securing funding for projects remains a challenge and our insight shows that for the majority of social landlords, lack of funding is the main barrier to making energy efficiency improvements to their housing stock. We can help social landlords overcome this with advice on access to funding to enable energy efficiency projects to progress. In addition, we also work with them to tackle the challenge of providing affordable warmth, to the most vulnerable tenants, through the wider education and engagement programmes npower can offer.?

For more information on npower?s Business and Social Housing division please visit www.npower.com/socialhousing.

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??????????npower is one of the top energy suppliers to the UK business market, serving over 238,000 small to medium sized enterprise sites and around 17,000 industrial and commercial customers, with over 100,000 sites

?????????? npower is dedicated to helping UK businesses use energy more efficiently and therefore spend less money on their bills.? We aim to have a positive impact on the communities we serve and reduce our customers? carbon footprint whilst always improving our service to our customers.

????????? npower specialises in risk management solutions, including market-leading flexible energy purchasing, energy efficiency, and broader energy management functions, tailored to every size of business.

????????? npower is committed to helping its small business customers to improve their energy efficiency. npower smartstart offers business customers advice and guidance on reducing energy consumption. New business customers receive an energy monitor designed to improve their consumption awareness as well as access to a dedicated energy efficiency telephone helpline and website.

????????? For major energy users, npower offers multi-utility management consultancy to enable organisations to improve efficiencies right across the procurement/consumption chain.?

???????? npower customers include BT, Wembley Stadium plc, AstraZeneca and Sainsbury?s.

Source: http://www.npowermediacentre.com:80/Press-releases/Education-is-key-to-energy-efficiency-according-to-new-Head-of-Business-and-Social-Housing-at-npower-129d.aspx

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