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Summary

The Future Homes Standard aims to ensure all new build homes are future-proofed in relation to energy efficiency and low carbon heating. Homes will be required to reduce emissions by 75-80% by 2050, to make them ‘zero carbon ready’. In theory this means that when the electricity grid has been decarbonised, they will become zero carbon homes. The changes come about as part of a wider effort to reach net zero as a country by 2050. 

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