In 2023, we kicked off a mission. To construct 100,000 zero payments properties within the UK by 2030.
Properties which might be totally powered by inexperienced tech—photo voltaic panels, warmth pumps, and batteries—with zero vitality payments. It isn’t some far-fetched dream, it’s taking place. And we’re main the cost.
We’ve been led to imagine that vitality is one thing we’ll at all times need to pay an increasing number of for, with payments climbing increased yearly. However that doesn’t need to be the case. Proper at our fingertips, we now have the options—plentiful inexperienced vitality from the solar and wind, mixed with unimaginable inexperienced tech like photo voltaic panels, batteries, and warmth pumps. These improvements make it attainable to utterly abandon soiled fossil fuels and create a future the place clear vitality will not be solely plentiful however utterly free.
Only recently, we teamed up with Starship and Liverpool Metropolis Area CA to construct considered one of these revolutionary sensible properties in simply two days on the Labour celebration convention. That’s how shortly we will create a house that generates and shops its personal vitality, letting the individuals inside reside comfortably with out worrying about vitality prices for as much as 10 years. It’s an thrilling glimpse of what the long run holds.
In simply six years, 100,000 householders, households, and {couples} could possibly be residing with out ever having to consider an vitality invoice”
Greg Jackson
We’re teaming up with a few of the UK’s greatest housebuilders, Vistry Group and Bellway, to roll these properties out throughout the nation. Bellway’s bought a complete 130-home growth in Bedfordshire deliberate for ‘Zero Payments’—our largest website but—and regional builders like Verto and GS8 are going all-in with these future sensible properties.
Nevertheless it’s not nearly new builds. True change would require remodeling the properties we have already got. So, we’re additionally retro-fitting properties which might be already standing—an estimated 500,000 properties constructed since 2013 could possibly be upgraded to Zero Payments requirements. That’s an enormous variety of properties that would see payments disappear.
It’s not nearly saving cash (although that’s an enormous win)—it’s about making inexperienced residing the straightforward, reasonably priced possibility for everybody. And we’ve bought the tech, the companions, and the ambition to get it executed.
Zero payments, Zero stress, Zero carbon.
