Reforming the Business Energy Efficiency Landscape

Consultation response.

Climate Change Mitigation Advancing Net Zero Policy Document

This consultation response was developed following a number of workshops held with members in November 2015, both in the lead up to and during the consultation.

As an overarching comment, we would like to emphasise that this review represents an unprecedented opportunity for the Government to create an effective and coherent energy efficiency policy landscape. If successful, the resulting activity could have enormous benefits for the UK in terms of increased productivity, enhanced energy security, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. This opportunity is all the more important in the context of recent cuts to, or failures of, related policies covering new buildings, renewable generation, and home retrofit.

However, in order to achieve this, it is vital that the clear focus is on effectiveness, rather than the process being dominated by a short-term desire to cut business burden. By failing to drive improvements in UK businesses’ energy efficiency, we will be exposing our economy to greater harm in the future, and putting the long-term health of our economy at risk. Conversely, a resource efficient business sector will help to create a vibrant, low-carbon UK economy that is fit for the future.