1. Elizabeth Leighton Senior Policy Officer, WWF Scotland 16 September 2010 eleighton@wwfscotland.org.ukeleighton@wwfscotland.org.uk Achieving Our Potential Home Energy Efficiency Learning Network

2. Fuel Poverty

3. Scale of challenge

6. Street by street, house by house: Area-based retrofit for low carbon homes

7. Universal Schemes Hadyard Hill, Fintry, Girvan Up to 90% surveys Between 44% - 63% received measures Increase in disposable income

8. Benefits Every £1 for energy efficiency, £5 to local economy £10 m per year –householder fuel savings Over 200 jobs created value to the Scottish economy - £4 billion+ and 10,000 jobs over 10 years.

9. Fife Solar Bulk procurement microrenewables

10. Home Insulation Scheme 95,079 homes 44,944 HECs 7,650 measures (Phase 1)

11. Community heating Funding, capacity Heat mapping Local authority ESCOs? –Dunfermline District Heating Scheme –heat & hot water to 8 public buildings and over 200 homes. –60,000 tonnes ghg saved per year –income of more than £1 million per year. Primary District Heating Mains Secondary District Heating Mains

12. Recommendations Streamline customer journey – single package Universal schemes – Universal HIS a good start Maximise CERT and ‘top up’ Target hard-to-treat Whole-house approach Rolling programme – every area treated by 2020 Local leadership Standard evaluation of schemes

13. Paying for it “Green Deal” – Pay as you save (PAYS) Application to social sector Affordable for fuel poor? Retrofit spend: Govt spend – £5.5 : £1

14. What PAYS should do…. BeforeYear 1Year 10Year 25Beyond Energy £ BAU £1634 £1953£2629£2681 Energy £ w/ retrofit £1634£1073£1282£1786£1824 Repaym ent £458 £501 £581 Energy + repay £1634£1531£1783£2367£1824 Savings pa £103£170 £262 £857

15. Minimum Standards Berkley, California Point of sale, transfer, renovation Sweden Point of sale or rental Germany Refurbish more than 20% of existing building Spain Refurbishments must install solar water heating

16. Minimum standards – Scotland Spring 2011 – how powers in CC Act should be used All tenures? How apply to social sector? Measures based? Linked to EPC? Consumer engagement or backlash?

17. Where next? Your role? Your responsibility? Energy Efficiency Action Plan, Housing Strategy Public Sector Duty UK Energy Bill – Pay-as-you-save Beyond CERT?

18. “Significantly more will be spent on fuel than on the cost of energy saving measures. We are not putting people into debt. Energy efficiency makes sense – climate, energy security, fuel poverty, job creation, comfort and costs less. It doesn’t get much better than this.” –David Adams, Knauf Insulation