Current Partnership Projects

Below is a list of all the project work that the Partnership is currently undertaking, together with a brief outline of the work.

Assessment of the size and scale of the household energy efficiency industry

This project is being carried out by Element Energy and examines the capacity of the household energy efficiency industry to respond to the challenge of meeting the government’s 2020 objectives for carbon emissions reductions from the domestic sector.
 
A broad package of policy measures are in place to deliver the necessary energy efficiency improvements, targeting both the building stock and home appliances. 

The project will assess the likely impact of these policies on uptake of energy efficiency measures and quantify the growth of the industry that will be needed to keep pace with the accelerated demand that policy will create.

 The evidence base underpinning these projections is a comprehensive survey of the size and shape of the current industry and of how the industry has evolved over recent years in response to current policies, their predecessors and changing consumer attitudes.

Monitoring and supporting action under CERT: Opportunities to improve hard-to-treat homes
Pett Projects are undertaking research into the opportunities within CERT to improve Hard-to-Treat (HTT) homes. The project has been commissioned by the Hard to Treat Homes Sub-group of the Partnership.

The research will explore the range of opportunities within the CERT framework and provide guidance for how energy suppliers and others can tackle HTT homes as a means of stimulating the market for particular measures such as ground sourced heat pumps and insulation of solid walls. The research also aims to identify the ways in which future policy and schemes can be developed to tackle a greater number of HTT properties within the target date for eradication of fuel poverty.

Research into Compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations for New Homes
Faber Maunsell is undertaking the above project on behalf of the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes. The project will investigate compliance with the Building Regulations (Part L) for new homes. This is a two phase project funded jointly with the Communities for Local Government (CLG).

Specific objectives of the project include: assess compliance, assess requirements for enforcement, inform policy by using stakeholder engagement, inform stakeholders, inform the knowledge base, identify the standard to which new homes are being built, identify learning points and inform the 2010 revision of the Building Regulations and aim to quantify the impact of the Regulations in terms of carbon dioxide savings.