Autumn/Winter Meeting1st December 2011 | Taunton

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10.30 News

11.00 Green Deal & Affordable Warmth Project

11.10 A community/localism approach to delivering energy efficiency & Green Deal - Dr. Jon Kirby (E.ON)

11.35 The new HECA Obligation: what should it be? Discussion

12 noon LUNCH

12.45 The View From... Dorset - Peter Bywater will describe a project to identify & assist fuel poor households through door-knocking

1.10 A new CWI product that can be used in cavities of <50mm - Jamie Robbins (J & J Crump Ltd.)

1.30 Partner updates: EST, NEA, Carillion, etc.

1.45 Open session: thoughts & views from around the region

Green Deal Consultation

Green Deal Consultation

• 238 pages; 63 questions - responses by 18th January

• Affordable Warmth Target

• “Solid Wall Insulation is the key technology which we see ECO supporting”

• LAs likely “...to be crucial in ensuring effective and intensive delivery...”

• householders ‘encouraged’ to take up packages

Energy Company Obligation

• Carbon Saving Target: 0.52 million tonnes CO2 per year

• Affordable Warmth Target: £3.4 billion reduction in notional lifetime cost of heating

• AWT expected to benefit 325,000 households by March 2015

• cost to energy companies estimated at £1.3bn per year

• funding split 25% Affordable Warmth; 75% Carbon

Green Deal/ECO & the Fuel Poor

• at least 4.1m fuel poor households in England - and rising

• intention to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016 re-stated

• to March 2015 ECO expected to assist 325,000 homes, leaving 3.8m in fuel poverty

Sample Questions

• Q11: views on hard-to-treat cavities

• Q12: should ECO Carbon Saving be used primarily for SWI

• Q13: should other measures be applied only with SWI

• Q15: should boiler repairs be scored under Affordable Warmth obligation; if so, how

• Q31: should Affordable Warmth measures be SPG only

• Question not asked: should all or most of ECO be aimed at fuel poor households

Feed-In Tariffs

• Consultation?! You probably know the key changes...

• Tariff reduced from 43.3p to 21p per kWh

• 4% tax-free rate of return

• simple payback now 18-20 years

• ‘eligibility date’ 12th December 2011

Winter Outlook Report

• Met Office “small weighting towards colder than normal temperatures”

• prices strongly favour coal rather than gas for power generation

• low risk of gas supply shortages

• electricity generation capacity sufficient

Cold Weather Plan

Cold Weather Plan

• reduce impact of severe cold weather on health

• 27,000 excess winter deaths December to March

• most deaths amongst elderly; strokes, respiratory problems, cardiac disease

• cost to NHS: £850million/year “winter related disease due to cold private housing”

• £10m extra for Warm Front

• £20m for Warm Homes Healthy People Fund

Warm Homes Healthy People Fund

• £20million fund, but this may be increased

• applications by LA’s only

• projects completed/money spent by March 2012

• aim: to reduce death & morbidity due to cold housing

• contact your NHS public health teams

• 8th December deadline for bids; 16th December notification

Warm Homes Healthy People bids

• does your project supplement other sources of funding?

• is your approach innovative?

• how does your proposal reduce impacts on health?

• is what we propose targeted at the most vulnerable?

• which community & voluntary groups should we work with?

• how does our proposal link with the Cold Weather Plan?

• can what we propose be delivered before end of March 2012?

Hills Fuel Poverty Review

• fuel poverty is a distinct and serious issue

• existing definition is simple but flawed

• core problem of fuel poverty is diluted by fuel prices

• every measurement method has flaws

• low income high cost indicator preferred; fuel poverty exists where:

(i) household has above reasonable costs of warmth AND

(ii) where meeting those costs would push it below an income threshold

Heating Costs

Fuel Heating system 2-bed 3-bed 4-bed

Housecoal Grade A

EDF domestic tariffEDF domestic tariff

EDF Econ7 tariff

BGas DD tariffBGas DD tariff

LPG

Oil

Open fire, back boiler £893 £1,177 £1,663

Electric radiators, immersion heater £1,511 £2,013 £2,917

ASHP underfloor £634 £836 £1,197

Storage heaters; immersion heater £820 £1,083 £1,560

Gas boiler, rads, HW cylinder £907 £1,160 £1,601

Gas condensing boiler, rads, HW cylinder £764 £969 £1,330

LPG-fired boiler, rads, HW cylinder £1,618 £2,119 £2,993

Oil fired boiler £1,099 £1,449 £2,061

Source: Sutherland Tables, October 2011. Data for Wales and South West England.

Room Heating CostsFuel Heating System Cost of 2800kW

Housecoal - Grade A

Anthracite nuts

Standard domestic tariff

Economy 7

British GasBritish Gas

LPGLPGLPG

Open fire £250

Closed roomheater £201

Electric fire £424

Night storage heater (90%); electric fire (10%) £261

Radiant/convector fire £442

Decorative effect open fire £914

Radiant/convector fire £573

Decorative effect open fire £1,193

Butane heater £459

Source: Sutherland Tables, October 2011. Data for Wales and South West England.

Source: Sutherland Tables, October 2011.

Source: Sutherland Tables, October 2011.

Energy Prices: Plymouth Sep 2011

CreditCredit Direct DebitDirect Debit PrepaymentPrepayment

Gas Electricity Gas Electricity Gas Electricity

Largest

Average

Smallest

£816 £478 £788 £440 £730 £476

£681 £449 £642 £413 £677 £455

£639 £418 £607 £379 £659 £432

Source: http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/stats/publications/qep/2867-qep-sep11.pdf

http://www.ukace.org/publications/ACE%20Research%20(2011-11)%20-%20Scaling%20the%20solid%20wall%20full%20report

Scaling the Solid Wall

• SWIGA should be implemented at earliest opportunity

• urgent need for investment in product development

• ECO scores must be flexible enough to take into account multiple wall products

• “very high” ECO subsidy levels required for low-income private sector

• substantial incentives needed to encourage uptake

• “HECA officers will play an essential role...”

• area-based ‘zoning’ to maximise uptake

Ofgem publications

Green Deal & Affordable Warmth

• DECC-funded project, delivered by NEA

• 10 projects: 2 in south west (Plymouth & Bournemouth)

• aim to develop Green Deal Delivery Plans by March 2012

• find & evaluate how fuel-poor households can benefit from Green Deal/ECO and related policies

• 15-20 days of NEA technical, policy & delivery expertise