On Tuesday 26th February at 10am,
the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Committee begins its inquiry into the Government’s
approach to delivering energy efficiency improvements to
buildings.
The inquiry is
examining whether Government’s current delivery of energy
efficiency improvements within residential, commercial and
public-sector buildings is consistent with meeting targets set
out in the Clean Growth Strategy, and the fourth and fifth carbon
budgets.
The first evidence hearing on Tuesday is likely to examine the
mechanism used by the Government to improve the energy efficiency
of low-income and fuel poor households - ECO3 – and to explore
the role of city and local authorities in delivering the
Government’s energy efficiency targets as well as looking more
closely at the rented sector.
The inquiry will look at the importance of energy efficiency in
achieving the carbon emissions targets set out in the
Government’s Carbon Budgets and will also include a focus on
action to upgrade the energy efficiency of fuel-poor homes and
the Government’s work to drive demand for energy efficiency
measures within able to pay households. The inquiry comes ahead
of the spending review later this year and the Government’s
revision of the fuel poverty strategy.
The National Infrastructure Commission has recommended that the
Government should be installing 21,000 energy efficiency measures
a week by 2020, although current rates are just 9,000 a week.
Witness schedule
Tuesday 26th February at 10am, Room TBC
The meeting will be broadcast live on Parliament TV.
At 10am:
-
Laurence Slade, Chief Executive, Energy UK
- Dhara
Vyas, Head of Future Energy Services, Citizens Advice
-
, Director of Policy and
Research, National Energy Action (NEA)
- David
Weatherall, Head of Policy, Energy Saving Trust
At 10.45am:
- Amy
Simmons, Head of Policy, National Housing Federation
- Dr
Joanne Wade OBE, Deputy Director, Association for Decentralised
Energy
-
, Director, UK100
- Shirley
Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor, Environment and Energy, Greater London
Authority
