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Friday 4 A riday 4 April pril

Today

• Introductions
• Context – ECO Consultation and its potential impact on

rural areas

• Delivery – Key Challenges
• Sustainable Homes Index for the Future (SHIFT)
• Taking a step back – how SHIFT are helping social

housing landlords understand their stock, and their tenants’ energy usage

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Overview of ECO

• Energy Company Obligation – 2012-15
• ‘Big 6’ energy utilities have to achieve obligated

carbon/financial savings in domestic sector

• Obligation linked to customer base
• Original estimated £1.3 billion cost p.a.
• Currently proposed changes going through consultation

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Headline proposed changes to ECO

• Overall extension of ECO to 2017
• CSCO and HHCRO (Affordable Warmth) targets ring-

fenced to original 2015 levels – with introduced 2017 targets in line with these levels

• CERO (Carbon Emission Reduction Obligation) target

reduced by 1/3 – 2015 target now ‘soft target’

• ‘Standard’ Cavity Wall and Loft Insulation introduced as

stand-alone measure under CERO

• Solid Wall Insulation minima of 100,000 measures for

whole of ECO to be introduced

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Potential impact for rural areas

Possible Positive

• Benefit criteria for CSCO Rural removed to enable less stringent

criteria

• CSCO areas increased to most deprived 25%
• Standard cavity and loft able to be installed regardless of

geographical area and without ‘primary’ measure

• Artificial uplift under HHCRO for non-gas properties (non-social

tenure) from April 2017 – 5% insulation, 100% heating Possible Negative

• No more defined ‘hard to treat’ cavity wall insulation
• Availability of standard cavity or lofts in rural areas
• Solid Wall minima will affect non-traditional activity in particular
• Decreased CERO rates will affect funding proportions requiring

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Delivery Challenges . . .

• Funding Levels / Funding Uncertainty
• Planning
• Logistics
• Labour / Materials Supply Chain
• Archetypes / Non Traditional Properties

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. . . But often it comes down to

• Understanding your stock
• Understanding your residents’ behaviour
• Understanding the cost / benefit of the range of

interventions available

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