The Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation

By Jan Rosenow, N. Eyre. 2012

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Current UK energy efficiency policy is very fluid, with a number of new policies due to be introduced in 2012 and 2013, including the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation. These mark a substantial change from the existing policy regime in a number of ways, notably the explicit aim of supporting higher cost energy efficiency technologies in housing and an attempt to engage new sources of private sector finance. This paper provides a critical analysis of the proposed policy changes both in terms of the institutional changes and the implications of a new finance mechanism for energy efficiency policy, as well as the overall impact on reduction of greenhouse gasses, in particular through the installation of different types of retrofitted insulation.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. R. Platt
2. Brooke Flanagan
3. Jan Rosenow
4. N. Eyre
5. F. Kern

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. F. Kern
2. R. Platt
3. Brooke Flanagan
4. Jan Rosenow
5. N. Eyre
6. Cristina Peñasco
7. Laura Diaz Anadon
8. Mari Martiskainen

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Measures in the Residential Sector Gas Consumption Through Dynamic Treatment Effects: Evidence from England and Wales (2022, background): “The Green Deal was cancelled after only 1% of expected households benefitted from the loans of the programme (National Audit Office, 2016).”
• A post mortem of the Green Deal: Austerity, energy efficiency, and failure in British energy policy (2016, background): “Early assessments of the proposals predicted that the introduction of the Green Deal and the restructuring of the energy savings obligations would lead to a decline in energy savings of around 80% (Rosenow and Eyre 2013).”
• Policy packaging or policy patching? The development of complex energy efficiency policy mixes (2017, background): “…studies on energy efficiency policy focus on the effectiveness of individual policy instruments (or a few instruments ) such as energy audit programmes [2], energy performance certificates [1], energy performance regulation [4] or market based instruments such as the UK's Green Deal [16] [25] [61].”
• Fuel poverty and energy efficiency obligations - A critical assessment of the supplier obligation in the UK $ (2013, methodology): “…and the confusion of policy goals, with the termination of Warm Front, a large fuel poverty grants scheme in England, in 2013 and no other dedicated fuel poverty policy in place, the SO now constitutes the only significant fuel poverty policy in terms of spending (Rosenow and Eyre, 2012, 2013).”
• Evaluating the evaluations: Evidence from energy efficiency programmes in Germany and the UK (2013, unknown): “For the post-CERT period a new scheme, called Energy Company Obligation (ECO), is planned [37].”