The Energy Bill Revolution

• The Infrastructure Planning Authority yesterday published its National Infrastructure Delivery Plan which for the first time includes energy efficiency and home insulation.

Energy Bill Revolution Response to Spending Review

• ONS announces today Excess Winter Deaths in England and Wales surged to 43,900 in 2014/15, the highest since 1999
• With winter coming, Chancellor refuses to invest one penny of the £100 Billion infrastructure budget in insulating the UK housing stock, the best long term solution to cold home crisis
• Energy efficiency investment reduced again with the Energy Company Obligation (flagship scheme to improve home energy efficiency) falling from £800 million to £650 million (having already falling from £1.3bn to £800m in 2013)
• ECO reduction and not further public funding for homes means only 1 million households can be helped with energy efficiency measures this Parliament, a 78% decline in support compared to last Parliament when 4.5 million homes were helped

• Official winter death figures for 2014/15 set to surge
• Government ambition to insulate 1 million homes is 78% decrease in support compared to last 5 years
• Without infrastructure support in spending review it will take 270 years to make all UK homes energy efficient Read more

• UK performs worst overall of 16 European countries across a range of housing and fuel poverty indicators
• UK ranks 14^th out of 16 European countries on fuel poverty and 12^th of 16 on households reporting that their home is in a poor state of repair
• UK’s most energy inefficient homes have to spend £2,670 per year on energy on average according to research¹
• 8 out of 10 of the English Parliamentary constituencies with the most energy inefficient homes are Conservative, with 4 represented by Ministers Read more