Westminster Sustainable Business Forum

Warmer & Greener: A guide to the future of domestic energy efficiency policy

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The WSBF has published a new report. Co-Chaired by Peter Aldous MP and Dr Alan Whitehead MP this report provides an evidence-based, authoritative signpost for the future of domestic energy efficiency. It will inform the learning process from past energy efficiency initiatives and make a substantial contribution to future policy development in this area.

The report sets out the case for improving domestic energy efficiency and examines some of the major challenges in this area. The main focus of the publication is on the four key areas of domestic energy efficiency policy: regulation, financial mechanisms, advice and information and developing the industry. Warmer & Greener examines opportunities for development in each of these areas. It makes a series of recommendations to the Government and other relevant parties.

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Following on from the report Building Efficiency: Reducing energy demand in the commercial sector, the Westminster Sustainable Business Forum (WSBF) has undertaken a follow-up research inquiry to investigate how current domestic energy efficiency incentives operate in practice and what different options to reform or re-design respective policies and schemes could look like. Warmer & Greener: A guide to the future of domestic energy efficiency policy was formally launched on 27 April in Parliament at a panel debate chaired by Peter Aldous MP and Dr Alan Whitehead MP and featured representatives from Parliament, Industry and Academia.

Co-Chairs

Peter Aldous MP and Dr Alan Whitehead MP

Steering Group

  • ADEY
  • British Board of Agrément
  • Cambridge Econometrics
  • The Committee on Climate Change
  • SGN
  • UCL Energy Institute
  • UK Energy Research Centre
  • Wei Yang & Partners
  • Willmott Dixon

The main themes discussed in the report are:

  • The need to increase the energy efficiency of people’s homes to tackle fuel poverty and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (the Warmer & Greener concept).
  • The need to both build on what has been achieved so far in this area and learn from problems with past policies.
  • The extensive potential for the ‘smart’ use of regulation to drive improvements across different housing sectors: new build, private rented sector, owner occupied and social housing.
  • The need for effective financial mechanisms which help low income and fuel poor households to pay for efficiency measures and incentivise better off households to install them.
  • The need for effective advice and information to engage people with the idea of domestic energy efficiency improvements, ensure that they install the right measures and maximise the effectiveness of measures once they are in place.
  • The need for government policy to support the development of a vibrant and self-sufficient energy efficiency industry.

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This inquiry is supported by ADEY and the British Board of Agrément.
 
To find out more about the report, please get in touch with Claudia Jaksch on 0207 202 8584 or at Claudia.Jaksch [at] PolicyConnect.org.uk (subject: Domestic%20Energy%20Efficiency%20Inquiry) (Claudia[dot]Jaksch[at]PolicyConnect[dot]org[dot]uk).