Introduction
The Department consulted on proposals for the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP). The broad policy proposals for the design of the programme included:
- placing an obligation on energy suppliers and electricity generators to meet a CO2 reduction target by providing energy efficiency measures to domestic consumers;
- requiring that this obligation is met by providing these measures to households in areas with high levels of low incomes;
- to offer these measures as a package to homes, to deliver a ‘whole house approach’ – so that homes can receive all the major energy efficiency measures they need, which could also include district heating schemes;
- specifying that only certain measures are eligible to count towards the CO2 targets, focusing on those measures which can make a substantial difference to a household emissions and fuel bills.
Background
The consultation ran for 3 months to 8 May 2009. A total of 183 responses were received. The response to the consultation was published on 10 July 2009.
The Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009 (Statutory Instrument 2009 No. 1905) implementing the scheme, was made on 20 July 2009 and came into effect on 1 September 2009.
Further information can be found on the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) web page.
Additional documentation
In order to support stakeholders in developing responses to the consultation we produced a number of additional documents, which sought to expand upon or clarify some of the issues under discussion. These can be found below, with the consultation documents themselves at the bottom of the page.