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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 |
Framing a sustainable transition to the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation
The ACE Research Team is today publishing its report on the implications of the transition from CERT to Green Deal and the new Energy Company Obligation after 2012 - to coincide with the deadline to the Government's Green Deal consultation.
The 'Dead CERT' project's focus is on the main contributors to the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target: cavity wall and loft insulation. Its aim is to understand the implications of the move from CERT to Green Deal and ECO for the markets for these measures, and to make recommendations to support a well-managed transition which ensures carbon budgets, fuel poverty targets, and the wider ambitions for the Green Deal can be met.
The report's findings, summarised here, inform the relevant parts of ACE's response to the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation consultation. Dead CERT concludes that current proposals for the Green Deal and ECO framework do not match the framework’s status as flagship Government policy, the aspiration for this Government to be the ‘greenest ever’, and the desire for the Green Deal to be ‘the biggest home energy improvement programme of modern times’. In fact, current proposals pose serious risks to Government objectives and the energy efficiency industry.
The full report demonstrates that an outcome which falls short of these aspirations is entirely unnecessary and easily avoided. For individual households, low cost insulation measures such as cavity wall and loft insulation can help make ambitious and capital intensive whole house packages meet the Golden Rule set for the Green Deal. In much the same way, fully tapping the considerable potential for these measures will enable the wider ambitions – for the Green Deal and ECO framework, carbon and fuel poverty targets, jobs and green economy objectives – to be met across the British housing stock without compromising the philosophy underpinning the Government’s proposals.
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Alongside ACE Research’s ‘Dead CERT’ report, published today, ACE has submitted its response to the Government’s consultation on the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation. Addressing all aspects of the consultation, the main thrust of our response is that the outcomes envisaged by the £1.3 billion expenditure proposed for the ECO fall far short of what is required to meet Carbon Budgets and eradicate fuel poverty. Furthermore, this level of spend is also less than historical levels of expenditure under CERT and Warm Front – despite Ministerial assurances that the ECO would “bring a far greater level of resource to bear on the fuel poor” than previously. With the ECO's limited ambitions for tackling fuel poverty, the consultation concedes that a mere 325,000 households will be assisted by the end of March 2015. In the context of at least 5 million households in fuel poverty, we believe that the Government has abdicated any serious attempt to meet its 2016 duty to eradicate fuel poverty.
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