Private household investment in home energy retrofit: reviewing the evidence and designing effective public policy

Retrofitting the housing stock to make it more energy efficient is a policy priority in Scotland, and alongside measures to target fuel poor households a major increase in private household investment in home energy retrofit is needed.

With the recent launch of the Energy Efficient Scotland Route Map, CXC’s Energy Policy Effectiveness project, based at the University of Edinburgh, has carried out an evidence review of how public policy can be used to leverage investment in retrofit by ‘able to pay’ households.

The review does not attempt to ‘pick a policy winner’. Effective policy involves a stable yet flexible retrofit policy package which informs, incentivises and regulates household demand, the businesses that supply it, and the support bodies that mediate between them.

The findings were presented at a recent seminar. Download all the presentations :

Niall Kerr – Review findings

Alice Owen – Retrofit supply chain

Aaron Gillich – An ‘optimal’ retrofit programme

Faye Wade – Encouraging homeowners to retrofit

Lynn Forsyth – Energy Efficient Scotland

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