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Enabling Energy Efficiency: Affordable Solutions for Warm and Comfortable Homes in Your Community

This guide explores energy efficiency and its benefits for households facing fuel poverty. By highlighting local success stories, it demonstrates how community groups and councils have reduced energy spending. The guide details payment options for energy efficiency improvements in England, Scotland, and Wales, including support from energy suppliers and government initiatives such as the Green Deal. It also outlines practical measures to help vulnerable households, promote awareness, and facilitate access to energy-saving offers. Together, we can create warm, sustainable homes for all.

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Enabling Energy Efficiency: Affordable Solutions for Warm and Comfortable Homes in Your Community

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  1. Enabling energy efficiency Warm, comfortable and affordable homes for your community

  2. Section 1 Introduction to energy efficiency

  3. Energy efficiency: what it can do for us

  4. Fuel poverty

  5. If you have a good local story about how a householder has benefitted from energy efficiency, or about how the local council or a community group has reduced its spending on fuel, this would be a good place to include it

  6. Paying for energy efficiency (England version) • Support from energy suppliers • The Green Deal: paying via your energy bills • Other sources of money

  7. Paying for energy efficiency (Scotland version) • Support from energy suppliers • Support from the Scottish Government (the Home Energy Scotland Hotline: 0800 512 012) • The Green Deal: paying via your energy bills • Other sources of money

  8. Paying for energy efficiency (Wales version) • Support from energy suppliers • Support from the Welsh Assembly Government (call Nyth/Nest on 0800 512 012) • The Green Deal: paying via your energy bills • Other sources of money

  9. Section 2 What can we do?

  10. Setting an example

  11. Providing information

  12. Helping vulnerable households • Managing home energy use • Awareness of offers and their benefits • Ability to take up offers • Claiming benefits Image courtesy of npower

  13. Partnerships

  14. Section 3 The Green Deal

  15. What is the Green Deal? • Comprehensive, household-specific energy advice • Green Deal Finance • Subsidies through the Energy Company Obligation • Available from autumn 2012 Image courtesy of the Energy Saving Trust

  16. The process

  17. Energy Advice • Assessment of the technical details of the property • Discussion with household about how they use the home • Recommended measures • Trained and accredited advisors Image courtesy of the Energy Saving Trust

  18. Green Deal Finance • Package designed on the basis of the energy assessment • ‘Golden Rule’ to ensure savings • Approved providers • Commercial interest rates

  19. Getting the work done • Choice of accredited installers • Green Deal code supports quality installation • Whole house approach to maximise savings and minimise disruption Image courtesy of the Energy Saving Trust

  20. Repayment • Repayment over a period of up to 25 years • Payments through electricity bill • ‘Golden rule’: new fuel bill plus Green Deal repayment will be less than old fuel bill • Repayment obligation passes to new owner when house sold

  21. The Energy Company Obligation • Requirement for energy companies to support energy efficiency investment • Subsidies for low income and vulnerable households • Subsidies for less cost effective measures in hard to treat homes (e.g. solid wall insulation)

  22. Consumer protection • Green Deal code and accreditation supports quality advice and installation • Usual guarantees for individual technologies • Continuing protection against disconnection for vulnerable consumers

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