Improving the energy efficiency of the built environment is a major challenge for London. Recent figures recorded a 19 percent increase in fuel poverty in London. The Capital’s carbon emissions have fallen by just 7 per cent since 1990, despite a 60 per cent reduction being targeted by 2025. The ‘Green Deal’, the coalition government’s flagship environmental policy programme, is intended to leverage around £12 billion of investment into residential and commercial energy efficiency. The Green Deal mechanism will enable households and businesses to install energy efficiency improvements to their property from registered providers at no upfront cost, with repayments attached to the property rather than the individual.
Throughout 2012 Future of London, supported by EDF Energy, has examined the prospects for, and potential impact of, the Green Deal for London. We published our findings in May 2012 – Delivering Energy Efficiency in London. During 2013, we will be running a programme of events that considers the practical delivery barriers for energy efficiency in London, and how London Boroughs can help drive demand for energy efficiency measures throughout the communities that they serve.
Events
10 June 2013: Retrofit Roundtable with EDF Energy
For a full archive of Future of London’s past energy efficiency events, click here.
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Key Publications
| Decentralised Energy: Could London Emulate Copenhagen? Future of London August 2012 This collection of essays looks at Decentralised Energy networks and what London can learn from the ‘Danish Model’. It is the first output from the London 2062 seminar series we held in partnership with UCL. |
 | Delivering Energy Efficiency in London Luke Hildyard, Future of London, May 2012 This report examines the practical implementation of the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO), and emphasises the critical role that London Boroughs will play in making the most of these new mechanisms. |
 | The Green Deal in London: Planning Q+A Luke Hildyard, Future of London, June 2012 This Future of London briefing paper, written in conjunction with legal firm Pinsent Masons, looks at the implications of implementing the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation in relation to planning policy at a local level. |
 | The Green Deal in London: Borough Challenges Luke Hildyard, Future of London, February 2012 This briefing paper provides more detail on the specific challenges facing London Boroughs in delivering Green Deal and ECO, with a particular focus on financing and the driving of demand locally for the two schemes. |
 | The Green Deal in London: Policy Overview Luke Hildyard, Future of London, January 2012 This briefing paper outlines the policy framework underpinning Green Deal and ECO, explains how the two might interact in practice, and sets out the range of different roles that London Boroughs might play in the successful delivery of these programmes. |
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News and Project Updates
- Delivering energy efficiency event: Retrofit Roundtable May 22, 2013 Our series on delivering the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation in London, supported by EDF Energy, continues with this 11 June event.
- Green Deal officially launches January 28, 2013 As the energy efficiency programme begins, DECC launches a public engagement campaign to raise awareness and trust for the Green Deal.
- Learning from CERT and CESP for ECO November 15, 2012 As CERT and CESP finish in 2012, this event explored what lessons from these programmes can be used to successfully deliver ECO.
- Event Series: Delivering Energy Efficiency in London October 4, 2012 Future of London is delighted to announce a new series of roundtable discussions focussing on driving demand for energy efficiency improvements across the Capital.
- New briefing paper: Green Deal - Planning Q+A June 12, 2012 This Future of London briefing paper looks at the implications of implementing the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation in relation to planning policy at a local level.