Issue - meetings

Purpose

1.             To update Cabinet on the delivery of the Warmer Homes project, funded by the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which enables free energy efficiency interventions to be made into private residents' homes. 

2.             To detail the latest progress made and grant monies spent, in Portsmouth and other local authority consortium partners' areas; the numbers and types of interventions made, including solar panels, air source heat pumps and insulation measures.

3.             To show in detail at the time of writing the report the monetary, carbon and energy savings that have been made by the project; as well as highlighting a number of case studies.

4.             To identify lessons learned from the delivery of the Warmer Homes project to date in order to streamline and improve the delivery of additionally secured and future funding opportunities. 

5.             To provide assurance that domestic energy retrofit, as a priority area for the Council, is providing demonstrable benefits to the city; and that the remaining period of the project will enable help to be provided to more households to reduce their carbon emissions and energy expenditure. 

RECOMMENDED that the Cabinet note the report.

The Cabinet noted the report.