Home Energy Savings Programme
• Announced by PM on 11 September
• £1bn package, including:
o increase in existing obligation on energy suppliers to
promote energy efficiency measures (CERT)
o a new Community Energy Savings Programme at
local level
o more spending on Warm Front, providing central heating
and other measures for low income families
o Energy Efficiency Employment Initiative, providing
retraining
o joint Government/business campaign to “save money, save
energy”
o trebling of cold weather payments to £25 per week
Community Energy Savings
Programme (CESP)
HECA meeting
Camden Town Hall, 21st January 2009
CESP - What Ministers have said:
• a new £350m Community Energy Saving Programme.... will
carry out house-to-house calls to offer help in some of the
most deprived areas of the UK. This could result in as many as
100 schemes across the country.
• ..offering free and discounted central heating, energy
efficiency measures and benefit checks.
• Will be a visible and community-based approach to the
energy efficiency programme, where every household in a
neighbourhood has the best possible package of help by
offering face-to-face contact and advice
• designed to help households save energy and save money
CESP – key features
• Obligation on suppliers and generators will be
based on targets based on carbon savings
• ...but fuel bill savings for households also a factor
• Localised in limited number of areas round the
country
• Areas will be deprived/lower-income
• Intensive whole house/whole street approach
• Community-focused, partnership approach
Areas/communities
• How big is an area – how many households
– 50-100 projects/100,000 households in total?
• Is low average income the best criterion ? –
simple, links to fuel poverty
• Balance between prescription and flexibility
Community partnership
• What does “partnership” mean – how can
partners add value
• Who are the best partners
– Local authorities
– others
• How ready are potential partners to play a role
• Any need for some sort of facilitation or will
partnerships develop naturally
• Can partnership leverage in extra funding
Approach
• What does “whole house” mean
– What about hard-to-treat homes
.. and homes that are already part-treated
...and flats
• What does “whole street” mean
• Does whole house/whole street approach
imply:
– role for community heating projects?
– role for behaviour-change measures?
Next steps
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Continuing engagement with stakeholders
Formal public consultation shortly
Roadshows
Draft statutory instrument early 2009
Scheme to come into force for winter 2009
Contact details Colin Macleod
Community Energy Savings Programme
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Area 2D
3-8 Whitehall Place
London
[email protected]
0207 238 4943