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£7 million Ofgem-funded trial to warm Greater Manchester terrace homes
Electricity North West and Greater Manchester Combined Authority will trial a "Net Zero Terrace" scheme in Middleton, funded with £7 million from Ofgem's Strategic Innovation Fund. The trial is due to run from December 2026 to August 2030.
Our readThe trial's real value is its four-year run time, long enough to show whether terrace retrofits can be repeated street by street rather than house by house.
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