Welcome to This Is Money podcast. I'm Georgie Pross. And alongside me and editor Simon Lambert today is Assistant Ednaz Lebois. And coming up, ministers want us to turn our houses green to save the planet, but do the sums add up for cash-strapped homeowners? Meanwhile, Simon takes aim at London's low-emission zone expansion. It's less than three months away and it's riddled with inconsistencies.

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the government is on a mission to make our homes more green, arguing that domestic energy use accounts for about 14% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.

That was all part of a drive for the country to hit net zero emissions by 2050.

The intentions are ultimately worthy, better for the environment, and therefore, I guess it figures better for our wallets.

The former may be true, the latter, I'm not so sure.

Let's just take a wee look.

Underfall insulation.

Let's set you back about five grand, double glazing, another five grand on top, solar panels, perhaps, six to seven grand.

Wall insulation, well, there, you're looking about

10,000 pounds, heat pumps. Oh, 20,000 pounds. Lee, not cheap, is it? When you look at this,

let's take a look, let's go back. What are the government's aims here? You know, what methods

are using to get there? Let's take a look at some of the bands, some the incentives. Well, the government is on this

real drive, you know, it's been on this green push for the last couple of years. And that

boils down to a lot of things. It boils down to the whole household, businesses, all

different areas of our lives. The thing is, I'm a bit skeptical about some of this stuff and especially this part

of it all. So let's think back to last year. We had this green scheme. We basically household

could apply for funding to get some green improvements done around their homes.

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