In its latest report, Reinventing retrofit, published earlier this month, Regen highlighted the potential benefits of redesigning the UK’s energy efficiency policy.
The report outlined the necessary action needed to tackle the efficiency of the UK’s housing stock, deemed to be the least energy efficient in Europe and contributing to more than 3,000 deaths from cold, insufficiently heated homes every year.
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Business supply and services
Cornwall Insight recently conducted research as part of its 2021 TPIs in the Business and Industrial Supply Markets report. The report shows that TPIs operating in the SME market note low uptake of energy efficiency measures from their clients currently. However, there is an expectation that this will increase in...
Heat networks
This Pixie Chart of the week compares the source of heating fuels from four European nations with the UK. Each country has a different starting point, challenges and opportunities based on their fuel use and social and economic factors. However, they are all still looking to significantly decarbonise over the next three decades.
Regulation and policy
1 April 2020 will see the government’s Warm Home Discount (WHD) and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme thresholds drop from 200,000 to 150,000. This will require all suppliers with more than 150,000 domestic customer accounts to be mandatory participants in these schemes. This week’s Chart of the Week looks at...
Home supply and services
On 19 September, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published its latest figures on the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Scheme. As illustrated in this week’s Chart of the Week, July recorded the most monthly installations under ECO3. However, July 2019 achieved the lowest total installations of a July...
Heat networks
This week, we look at a Committee on Climate Change (CCC) report by Element Energy and University College London published in August. The report assesses solutions to lower the UK’s hard-to-decarbonise housing stock emissions, focussing on reductions from space heating and hot water through heating technology upgrades and energy efficiency...
E-mobility and low carbon
In the first quarter of 2019 (Q119), battery electric vehicle (BEV) registrations grew by 87.5% across the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in comparison with the same quarter in the previous year. In this week's Pixie Chart of the week, we compare the major European battery...
Commercial and market outlook
Recent data from Ofgem, published in October 2018, shows mixed levels of uptake from ECO (Energy Company Obligation) obligated energy suppliers. It highlights a 50:50 split between those suppliers who have met approximately 100% of their LA Flex (Local Authority Flexible Eligibility) allowance and those who have not. LA Flex...
Heat networks
The Remaining Potential for Energy Savings in UK Households, by Rosenow, Gurtler, Sorrell and Eyre was published in the October edition of Energy Policy. It highlights the huge untapped potential for energy efficiency installations within the UK housing stock. We covered this in the latest issue of Energy:2030 published last week....
