The Government announced in May's budget $323 million over four years to retrofit 180,000 homes with insulation and clean-heating devices.
The Warm Up New Zealand scheme provides government grants of up to $1300 towards a third of the cost of insulation and a $500 grant for clean heaters.
Community Service Card holders can get more funding. In the first year, 27,000 homes were to be retrofitted, building to more than 60,000 in the fourth year.
A spokesman for Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee said because of high demand for the scheme subsequent years funding may be bought forward. Funding was not being increased.
Prime Minister John Key is to make an announcement today about take up of the scheme announced in the May budget -- expected to be 7000 houses in just two months.
If take up continued at that rate the 27,000 target would be exceeded by 15,000 by the end of a full year.
