'Great British refurb' touts energy efficiency
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) today outlined a plan to slash the carbon emissions from UK homes by 80 percent by 2050.
The long-term Heat and Energy Saving strategy would offer improved information and advice to homeowners, new finance packages and better delivery of energy-efficient and low-carbon improvements. The goal is to make whole-house improvements available to every resident by 2030.
“We need to move from incremental steps forward on household energy efficiency to a comprehensive national plan — the Great British refurb,” said Ed Miliband, Energy and Climate Change Secretary. “We know the scale of the challenge: wasted energy is costing families on average £300 a year, and more than a quarter of all our emissions are from our homes. Energy efficiency and low-carbon energy are the fairest routes to curbing emissions, saving money for families, improving our energy security and insulating us from volatile fossil fuel prices.”
In addition to the home efficiency strategy, DECC today also proposed two other measures: a Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) consultation document that would add funding for energy company home-efficiency subsidies, and a new Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) to provide whole-house help to some 90,000 low-income homeowners with £350 million in funds backed by energy suppliers and generators.
