Sustainable Housing Strategy Group

Workshop : Sustainable Housing Strategy – National Retrofit

Programme and Standards themes

SHS vision – towards 2030

• Step-change in provision of energy efficient homes to 2030

• Ensuring that no-one in Scotland has to live in fuel poverty, as far as practicable, by 2016

• Making full contribution to Climate Change Act targets – achieving RPP milestones

• Enabling the house-building and refurbishment sectors to contribute to and benefit from Scotland’s low carbon economy

SHS - themes

• Financial market transformation• New build market transformation• National Retrofit Programme• Standards• Skills and Training

Chapter 3 – National Retrofit Programme

NRP chapter – outline of content Why important / Vision/outcomes

Maximise opportunities to consumers to improve value/comfort of their home

Make Scotland most attractive place in GB for energy company investment

Long term plan to tackle fuel poverty and enable consumers to stop wasting money on energy

Wider strategy Links to value/housing quality/disrepair/standards

Specific objectives Fuel poverty - RPP milestones – insulation, boilers, renewable heat

Principles and models for NRP

Options for local council led area-based programmes in line with Fuel Poverty Forum principles

Existing case studies

Any examples ?

Consultation Qs

Forum Review of Fuel Poverty

• Area based approach to programme• Local authorities play a central role in delivery• One stop shop for advice• An offer is available for all households• Ensuring assistance is in place for fuel poor households

outside if programme areas • Ensuring that fuel poverty measures tie-in closely with

other anti-poverty measures • Ensuring that delivery model facilitates the effective draw

down of ECO

Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Funding

  2012/13£m

2013/14 2014/15

Scottish Government Fuel Poverty Programmes – EAP, UHIS, Boiler Scrappage

65

Domestic energy efficiency programmes - supporting a range of interventions to increase energy efficiency and tackle fuel poverty (ESSACs etc)

18.75 * *

Warm Homes Fund 3.25 7.75 18.75

Obligations on energy companies to help reduce carbon emissions and assist vulnerable customers (CERT/ECO)

100 **120 **120

Proposed National Retrofit Programme 65 66.25

Total 187 193 205

*Still to be determined.  The Forum assumes the ESSAC/Home Energy Scotland hotline to provide continued support. **ECO funding for 2013/14 and 2014/15 is based on pro rata funding at 9% of estimated GB total.

SG ECO

affordable warmth

ECO carbon - SWI

Able to pay - "golden rule met" - Green deal finance. Possible SG assistance - Interest free/discounted loans

Option A – Local Authority bids into SG funding Programmes

SG funding

ECO

Finance

LA

Bid for funding

Bids awarded initiallybased on fuel poor areas

Delivery partner/installation companies

Payments

Energy Companies

Green Deal or other options

Install & manage

Benefits

Green Deal payments

Contract

Other

One stop shop for advice

Marketing

Funding for advice?

Option B – Pooled ECO & SG funding with contracted brokerage role

SG ECO

Finance

LA

Bid for funding Bids awarded initially

based on fuel poor areas

Delivery partner/installation companies

Payments

Energy Companies

Green Deal or other options

Install & manage

Benefits

Green Deal payments

Contract

Other

One stop shop for advice

Marketing

Funding for advice

Broker

Contract

Option C – Alternative using Green Deal Finance Company

Finance

Payments

Other

Green Deal Finance Company

Delivery partner Energy Companies

Install & manage

Benefits

Green Deal payments

Contract

Installation Companies

Marketing

PV Meter/deemed

Hard to TreatECO

Green Deal +FITPayments

Consultation question topics

• How can the retrofit product be made most attractive to consumers?

• What further action needed to achieve step-change in retrofit ?

• How do we ensure that a National Retrofit Programme maximises benefits to all groups of consumers ?