The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill 2019-20 was introduced by Anna McMorrin MP following the Private Members' Bills Ballot on 9 January 2020. First reading took place on 5 February 2020 and the Bill's second reading is due on 11 September 2020.
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Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) (110 KB, PDF)
This note outlines the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP). The programme was a three-year obligation on major energy suppliers and generators to offer free or low cost energy efficiency measures in certain low income areas. It ended in December 2012.
Overall CESP was targeted on income-deprived homes in defined areas and concentrated on a community street-by-street approach led by the major energy suppliers/generators and local authorities. The scheme was better at incentivising suppliers to deal with hard-to-treat homes (especially with solid wall insulation) than the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme (that concentrated on individual households).
Despite CESP being slower to implement than planned, (due to planning issues for energy companies and local authorities with large numbers of measures), it did drastically improve in the final year and achieved 84.7% of its overall carbon saving target.
Documents to download
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Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) (110 KB, PDF)
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