Energy efficiency

― According to the latest figures, 26.5% (or around 649,000) of Scottish households live in fuel poverty while 7.5% of households (183,000) live in extreme fuel poverty. This is unacceptable in contemporary Scotland.

― The aims of the European Union’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), which requires EPCs to be produced for all new buildings and those being sold or rented out, are fundamentally sound and should serve to drive improvements in energy performance.

― The response is strongly of the view that the Scottish Government has significantly under-estimated the financial, resource and time costs involved in using Energy Performance Ccertificates as a basic measure of energy efficiency.