Energy Performance Certificates

(asked on 27th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their target for upgrading domestic properties to Energy Performance Certificate band C by 2030 is 1.5 million homes, as set out in The Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published on 18 November, or all fuel poor homes, as set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, published on 12 October 2017.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

We remain committed to the aspiration set out in the Clean Growth Strategy for as many homes as possible to be EPC Band C by 2035 where practical, cost-effective and affordable. We are also committed to ensuring that as many fuel poor homes as is reasonably practicable achieve a minimum energy efficiency rating of Band C, by 2030.

There are a number of Government schemes available to support households in improving the energy efficiency of their homes, including the Green Homes Grant and Energy Company Obligation, with some funding specifically targeted towards households in fuel poverty.

In the Ten Point Plan, we specify that our green home finance initiatives could help to improve the energy performance of around 2.8 million homes, improving around 1.5 million to EPC C standard by 2030. These figures refer specifically to the proposals laid out in the consultation, ‘Improving home energy performance through lenders’, which is focused on mortgaged homes in England and Wales.

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