Including the closely related terms new fuel poverty, fuel poverty, and poverty.
… are: ➢ Developing regulations so that all new homes from 2024 must use renewable or low carbon heat. ➢ Phase in renewable and low carbon heating systems for new non-domestic buildings consented from 2024. ➢ Reaching Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2040 for all Scottish homes. ➢ Under the new Fuel Poverty Act 2019, no more than 5% of Scottish households will be in fuel poverty, and no more…
… than 1% will be in extreme fuel poverty by 2040. v) Perth & Kinross Council The need to address climate change is already embedded in many Council plans and strategies. Our main strategic documents - the Community Plan, the Corporate Plan and our Local Development Plan - all set out our aspirations to address climate change by reducing our emissions and by making our area more resilient…
… the Council a direct mechanism to help tackle fuel poverty, or the means to reduce the energy demand and costs of social housing, and passing these benefits onto vulnerable groups. This project has the potential to completely overhaul the way in which we power our Council estate not only saving the Council money on energy costs but also opening up a potential new income generation stream. 19…