The Energy Bill Revolution’s (EBR) latest report, entitled ‘Building the Future: The economic and fiscal impacts of making homes energy efficient’, explores the economic and fiscal impacts of the EBR’s proposed approach to making the UK’s homes more energy efficient and tackling fuel poverty for the long term.
This is the first time a major modelling assessment has been carried out to look at both the fiscal impacts of such an ambitious UK retrofit programme.
The EBR calls for a new approach to home energy efficiency. It would like to bring all low-income homes up to Band C on an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) by 2025 through energy efficient measures. It would like all other households to be offered 0% interest loans to improve their EPC standards by 2025, delivered as part of a major infrastructure investment programme.
Jade Lewis, Advocacy Leader for Saint-Gobain, said: “We support the campaign to bring down energy bills through improving the energy efficiency of UK homes, which offers a long-term solution to fuel poverty for the millions of people struggling.
“The report details a positive approach to improving the UK’s housing stock, which is one of the poorest in Europe in terms of energy efficiency. Buildings are responsible for almost 37% of all UK carbon emissions, so it is important that this figure is reduced nationwide.
“Saint-Gobain would like to see energy efficiency retrofit a priority infrastructure spend in the UK. Much more needs to be done to simplify and incentivise the uptake of energy efficient retrofit measures if we are to reduce emissions from the built environment, meet our UK carbon reduction targets and tackle fuel poverty. We believe that a long-term fabric first approach is needed to meet these targets.”
Full details are available at http://www.energybillrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Building-the-Future-The-Economic-and-Fiscal-impacts-of-making-homes-energy-efficient.pdf.