The Sustainable Power Affiliation (SEA) has launched a brand new report – ‘Coverage Boundaries and Options for a Know-how-Agnostic Method to Warmth and Buildings’ – detailing how authorities warmth and buildings coverage can shift in direction of delivering probably the most acceptable applied sciences for attaining the very best outcomes.
The report outlines what the SEA and Companions see because the challenges and limitations to delivering a Know-how-Agnostic Method to Warmth and Buildings and suggests methods they are often overcome.
Areas recognized within the SEA report vary from business communications and shopper recommendation exercise, the short-term nature of coverage phases and waves, to vitality market preparations and pricing, the EPC framework, labour and abilities scarcity for delivering these LCTs.
Among the many options recommended within the report is the creation of a Nationwide Retrofit Technique. It additionally suggests the Authorities ought to concentrate on an outcomes-based strategy to insurance policies for decarbonising buildings and widen its communications on low-carbon applied sciences and retrofit to incorporate the various vary of acceptable options accessible.
Dave Sowden, interim Chief Government of the SEA commented: “As a part of our profitable ongoing collaboration, this defining report gives a wealthy image of the challenges and alternatives that lie forward for transitioning warmth and buildings. The big selection of suggestions made to the Authorities ought to assist them to refine their insurance policies and communications to ship a holistic, technology-agnostic and outcomes-based strategy. We hope that the Authorities and sector proceed to have interaction on this work to assist create dwelling and dealing areas match for future generations.”
Russell Dean, Vice President of the SEA and Residential Merchandise Group Director, Mitsubishi Electrical stated: “Trade is working exhausting to ship vitality effectivity and low carbon heating know-how resembling warmth pumps. It’s solely with a collaborative strategy, by bringing collectively the experience and information of companies and authorities, will the material of buildings be made prepared, that the proper know-how may be manufactured and the work drive expert to finally obtain the federal government’s internet zero goal.”
To see the report in full please click on right here.