DECC Local Authority Competition 2012-13Fuel Poverty Fund

23.04.2013

• Low income households ‘locked-in’ to high energy costs, which causes negative health outcomes.

• Vital in ensuring a fair outcome for low income households as we move towards low carbon future, ensuring fuel poor do not get left behind

• Potential to deliver significant economic benefits (resource saving, jobs, health benefits) and energy security.

Why Government is committed to tackling Fuel Poverty

• Aim - To support local authorities to reduce the extent of fuel poverty through improvements to thermal efficiency of dwellings amongst low income and vulnerable households

• Huge response - 136 applications involving the majority of authorities in England requesting over £60 million of support

• Delivery - £31 million allocated to 60 projects, involving 169 local authorities, working individually or as part of consortia.

DECC Local Authority Fuel Poverty Competition 2012-13

• Great opportunity - Number and variety of projects offers considerable insight into local authority-led delivery models and their outcomes – will inform future policy development and delivery

• Areas of interest - Role of local networks and knowledge in targeting the Fuel Poor, delivery alongside ECO, LAs as trusted partner

• Types of evaluation:– Quantitative data collection from all projects– Self-evaluation survey for all projects (optional) – In-depth process evaluation with a sample of projects– Evaluation produced by projects themselves

Maximising learning from the Competition