Environmentally-friendly heating systems which pump in warmed air from outdoors will be installed in 30 council-owned homes throughout Wigan.
Wigan council has ringfenced money for 30 air source heat pumps to be fitted at low-income council-owned homes which have low energy efficiency ratings.
Households with a gross income of less than £30,000 and an Energy Performance Certificate grade of E, F or G are eligible for the funding.
The work will be funded by the Greater Manchester Green Homes Grant.
Tenants have registered their interest in the new heating systems, but the council will first need to carry out pre-works surveys and any relevant checks.
A contract for the installation of the air source heat pump has been awarded.
The decision was signed off by Labour councillor Terry Halliwell, who is the portfolio holder for housing and welfare, at a meeting earlier this month.
It comes as the council works towards making all of its housing stock net zero carbon by 2038, in line with Greater Manchester's housing strategy.
This means all of Wigan council's housing must be highly energy efficient and fully powered from renewable energy sources which could be on or off site.
Speaking at a scrutiny committee meeting earlier this month, service manager Lee Payne told councillors that the local authority is looking at carrying out the necessary work on its housing stock in two phases, starting next year.
He said: "Starting first with the fabric of the properties, the insulation of the properties, and get that up to standard before a second phase, which may be eight, nine years away, to then look at the green technologies within those buildings.
"Some of the green technologies are not quite as mature as more traditional solutions, but that is getting better and that's why we propose to do that as part of a second phase, focusing initially on efficiency works.
"However, we will be doing some other works around that.
"We will be doing some solar panel works through the grant funding that we've got and some air-source heat pumps next year as well."
The air-source heat pump project is part of the council's low carbon plans.
It is pending approval in the council's capital budget programme for the next financial year from the local authority's ringfenced housing revenue account.
Any spending incurred in this financial year will be supported by the boiler replacement budget within Wigan council's housing revenue account.
