Our Roadmap to 2030Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track, say MPs
In a report today the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee says poorly designed retrofit schemes, a “skills crisis” and costly assurance failures have significantly set back efforts to decarbonise home heating and bring down energy bills and pushed the UK’s clean, secure energy targets farther off track.
In their first report of this Parliament, the MPs call for a new national Warm Homes Advice Service, with indications that a tailored service signposting consumers to advice, certified installers and financial support could give a return of £15 for every £1 spent on it.
But the Committee also points to key steps that need to be taken to build confidence and competence in the retrofit programmes, to underpin the advice service and steer Government’s ambitions to deliver warm homes back on track.
Bill Esterson MP, Chair of the ESNZ Committee said:
“The UK’s disastrous lost decade for clean, secure energy is nowhere more evident than in the project to decarbonise and reduce costs for home heating: we are shockingly 98% below the levels of energy efficiency measures being installed in homes relative to the trajectory we were on in 2010.”
The report can be downloaded in PDF form here.
