1 / 4

Why Consider Minimum Standards of Energy Efficiency in Housing?

Why Consider Minimum Standards of Energy Efficiency in Housing?. Andrew Faulk Consumer Focus Scotland. Energy efficiency of housing has improved. But not enough to offset prices and address fuel poverty. Number of Households 1996 - 738,000 2002 - 293,000 2009 - 770,000 2011 – 850,000.

cecile
Download Presentation

Why Consider Minimum Standards of Energy Efficiency in Housing?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Why Consider Minimum Standards of Energy Efficiency in Housing? Andrew Faulk Consumer Focus Scotland

  2. Energy efficiency of housing has improved

  3. But not enough to offset prices and address fuel poverty Number of Households • 1996 - 738,000 • 2002 - 293,000 • 2009 - 770,000 • 2011 – 850,000

  4. Fuel Poverty among NHER poor households = 65%+ ‘I actually got our council tax rating downgraded after the council officer visited and I explained that there was no double glazing...’ ‘...there was no insulation at all either in the walls (an old stone building with new interior walls) or in the loft areas...’ ‘...there was electric storage heating which was 20 years old and was stone cold by five in the evening, leaving us with a coal / wood fire which smoked the place out and most of the heat went up the chimney’

More Related