UK's pioneering low carbon heating scheme helps just 79 households

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Fears that renewable heat incentive hailed as 'first of its kind in the world' will repeat slow take-up of green deal scheme

The much-delayed government scheme to encourage Britons to switch to low carbon heating has helped just 79 homes install new boilers in the two months since it launched.

Greg Barker, the climate minister, trumpeted the scheme as the first of its kind in the world when it was launched in April, but already there are fears it will go the way of the green deal the governments energy efficiency programme which achieved very low take-up.

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