{"id":69658,"date":"2020-01-06T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=69658"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:18:09","slug":"low-carbon-new-homes-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/low-carbon-new-homes-by-2024\/69658\/","title":{"rendered":"Low carbon heating for new homes in Scotland by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New regulations in Scotland will be developed to ensure all new homes use renewable or low carbon heating and are more energy efficient<\/h2>\n<p>This move to increase energy efficiency and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-neutral-by-2020\/69188\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduce carbon emissions<\/a> for new build homes will run alongside a \u00a330m investment in renewable heat projects.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable and low carbon heating systems will be phased in for non-domestic buildings given consent to build from 2024 as part of a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish government<\/a> initiatives to help tackle the climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s energy minister, Paul Wheelhouse, said: \u201cScotland is internationally recognised for its leadership on tackling climate change and for responding to the global climate emergency by setting an ambitious target to reach \u2018net zero\u2019 emissions by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have also set a challenging interim target of achieving a 75% reduction in emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that the pace of decarbonising Scotland\u2019s domestic and non-domestic buildings has to increase significantly to achieve those aims, and emissions from our buildings will have to fall close to zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will ensure that new homes and buildings across Scotland meet the challenge of the climate emergency, combining the action we need to take on climate change with our ambition to provide affordable, warm homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New regulations in Scotland will be developed to ensure all new homes use renewable or low carbon heating and are more energy efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[666,13038,693,430,673,279,276,572,656],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-building","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-energy-efficiency","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-housebuilding","15":"tag-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Low carbon heating for new homes in Scotland by 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New regulations by the Scottish government will be developed to ensure all new homes use renewable or low carbon heating from 2024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/low-carbon-new-homes-by-2024\/69658\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Low carbon heating for new homes in Scotland by 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New regulations by the Scottish government will be developed to ensure all new homes use renewable or low carbon heating from 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/low-carbon-new-homes-by-2024\/69658\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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