Summerfield Homes Marks Energy Saving Week With Encouraging Figures

TAUNTON, SOMERSET / AGILITYPR.NEWS / January 17, 2025 / SOUTHWEST housebuilder, Summerfield Homes, is marking this year’s Energy Saving Week – which runs from January 17^th to 23^rd - by highlighting the benefits of modern house building methods.

Summerfield Homes are built with energy savings in mind for buyers at a time when energy costs are continuing to rise. The ‘designed-in’ energy savers include double-glazing, insulation on doors, low-energy lighting, counterflow heat exchangers, heat pumps and electric car charging points.

Summerfield Homes Sales Director, Philip Morgan, says that a customer who moved into a brand new three-bedroom semi-detached Summerfield house at Killams Park, Taunton noticed an immediate difference on her energy costs compared to her previous home.

“The lady’s previous house was an older two-bedroom property which was not well insulated and was heated solely by electricity which she found expensive,” said Philip. “By contrast, her new home is always warm and heats up quickly. She is now paying around £80 a month on energy where her provider had estimated it would be over £170”.

According to the Home Builders Federation (HBF), the average energy saving for the buyer of a new build house is around £180 per month or £2,200 a year, a figure set to rise with the introduction of the Future Homes Standard regulations in 2025. 

The HBF adds that as well as providing financial savings, new build properties are significantly more environmentally friendly than older properties with the average new house emitting a third of the carbon of typical older houses.

Ed Khodabandehloo, Managing Director at Summerfield Homes, said: “We are always looking for ways to help our customers reduce their running costs as well as working towards a greener future. We are taking proactive steps towards building more energy efficient homes including a net zero development of 26 homes in Middlezoy”.

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Image: Philip Morgan of Summerfield Homes inside one of the newly built, energy efficient homes at the Killams Park development in Taunton.