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Strategic Partnership with Br
Strategic Partnership with Br.
About this update from Mears Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 0051T Mears Group PLC 21 September 2010 \n \n\n21 September 2010\nMears Group PLC\n(\"Mears\" or \"the Group\")\n \nStrategic Partnership with British Gas Trading Limited (\"British Gas\")\n \n \nMears announces that it has today entered into a Strategic Partnership (\"Partnership\") with British Gas to jointly address the challenges of energy efficiency within the social housing sector.\n \nMears in partnership with British Gas will target funding opportunities under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and the Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) within our existing and growing Social Housing client base. Our aim is to increase Mears' clients' share of British Gas's obligation funding streams, including CERT and CESP, enabling Social Housing Landlords to leverage more value from their capital budgets.\n \nThe Partnership will offer a full range of microgeneration installation and maintenance services across the 500,000 Social Homes we currently work with. These include whole house solutions which may include air and ground source heat pumps, bio-mass boilers and solar panels.\n \nAlso from today, Mears and British Gas will jointly bid on repair and maintenance contracts in social housing, with British Gas providing energy services and funding to subsidise energy efficiency, renewable and low carbon technology.\n \nBy combining the capability and resources of these two industry-leading organisations, the Partnership will create efficiency opportunities for Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords during a time of budget constraint. Social housing tenants should benefit from lower energy bills, warmer homes and better service as a result of better co-ordination which combines existing maintenance services with energy management. Tenants will also receive direct advice and help from Mears staff to ensure the value of these investments is maximised within the home. \n \nBritish Gas has the highest levels of CESP and CERT obligation of the major energy companies, and brings significant expertise on a full range of microgeneration systems, geared to leveraging funding through Feed-In Tariffs and the Renewable Heat Incentive, when available. \n \nMears were chosen by British Gas because of its innovative leadership position within the Socia...