Measuring, Monitoring and Targeting A Systematic Approach to Tackling Fuel Poverty Beacon Open Day :

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Measuring, Monitoring and TargetingA
Systematic Approach to Tackling Fuel
PovertyBeacon Open Day Kelham Hall, Newark
Nottinghamshire30th, 31st October , and 4th
November 2002

• Dr Bill Wilkinson
• Energy Audit Company

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Fuel Poverty

• Measuring
• Targeting
• Monitoring

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Measuring Fuel Poverty

• Not everything that can be counted, counts. Not
  everything that counts can be counted
• Albert Einstein

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Fuel Poverty Targetsfor Those on Benefits
10 of income excluding housing cost.
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CODAE

• Capable of delivering affordable energy

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Newark CODAE

• 2 Bed or less - single over 60s
• 3 Bed or more - 1 adult , 2 children
• 2001 - 446 Council dwellings not affordable
• 2002 - 198 Council dwellings not affordable

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Energy Databases and Uses

• Record by address of energy attributes and
  performance

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Uses of Energy Database

• Monitoring of activity (LA easy)
• Target setting
• Targeting of improvements

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Energy Performance
16000
14000
12000
1996
10000
2002
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
SAP band
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EAC and NSDC

• Council database 1992
• Private sector survey and report 1995
• HECA 1996 to date
• Fuel Poverty
• Large scale survey work
• Analysis of affordability

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Data SourcesLA Housing

• Rent database
• Stock surveys
• Gas safety records
• Grant work
• Drawings of house types

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Data Sources Private Sector Housing (1)

• Walk round surveys
• Grant work including Warm Front
• HECAMON or similar
• DIYHEC

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Data SourcesPrivate Sector Housing (2)

• Cavity fill records
• Glazing (new Part L)
• Small area social data
• Fuel type

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Updating of Database

• Manual entry
• Data import (problems)

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Marketing and Direct Mail

• Avoids waste
• Multiple outcomes
• Potential economy of scale
• Monitor success
• Easy to control

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Examples

• Cavity fill in non gas areas
• Warm Front take up
• DIYHEC

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Lessons Learned

• Decide what you want it for - level of data
  needed
• Property reference numbers
• Addresses
• Specialist help!

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Non SAP Items

• Lights and appliances
• Advice
• Under occupancy

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Hard to Heat 1

• Worst case and what-if scenarios
• Under-occupancy issues EHCS protocols
• 100m2 as a reasonably sized dwelling?
• Solid wall housing with cost effective insulation
• insulating energy design defects
• Wholesale wall insulation
• a fiscal non-starter?
• Linking to wider stock condition issues

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Hard to Heat 2

• The significance of high efficiency heating
• Gas
• Solid fuel
• Electric E7
• Oil
• Fire-lighting an issue for the elderly, a -cost
  issue for social services
• But keep the controls simple
• Maintenance liabilities

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Hard to Heat 3

• Renewable Energy Systems
• Pelleted wood boiler and community heating
• Solar thermal and solar photovoltaic
• Electric heat pump
• Community schemes
• Renewables toys for the fuel rich?
• Capacity issues
• Capital costs and paybacks
• Risk and client resistance
• Green tariff electric
• New build

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CO2-benefit to -cost hierarchy Analysis
abstracted from Energy Saving Trust spreadsheet
2001
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Dr Bill WilkinsonEnergy Audit Company

• Wandylaw House, Wandylaw,
• Chathill, Northumberland. NE67 5HG
• tel. [phone]
  bwilkinson_at_provider.co.uk