National Retrofit Strategy
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ExHA calls upon the Scottish Government to commit in principle to bring together existing efforts and introduce new methods to deliver on fuel poverty and climate change targets through a National Retrofit Programme (NRP) for existing homes. It is clear that such an approach would help co-ordinate the delivery of activity in this area, maximise the impact on the market and help ensure we fully realise the potential to create jobs in production and installation bringing economic benefits across the nation.
The aims of an NRP would be to achieve the Scottish Government’s three key targets in this area: specifically, to remove Scots households from fuel poverty by 2016; cut carbon emissions from homes by 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, and to achieve a 12% reduction in energy use by 2020. This would be delivered partly through targeting support for the retrofitting of energy efficiency measures and micro-generation at low-income households and communities, thus helping deliver on both energy demand and fuel poverty targets. Additionally, owner occupiers and private sector landlords would be required to invest in energy efficiency improvements to bring homes up to agreed levels at certain trigger points.
