Warm Homes Plan Published

The Government has published its Warm Homes Plan, which sets out £15 billion of investment to upgrade the energy efficiency of up to five million homes, representing a significant pipeline of publicly?funded retrofit work. With home insulation rates decreasing by more than 90% from 2010 - 2024, the plan has three delivery strands or ‘pillars’:

• Direct support for low?income families – £5 billion to fully fund retrofits, including insulation, solar panels, solar batteries and heat pumps, for low?income households.
• An offer for everyone – £2 billion to provide zero or low interest Government?backed loans to households outside of the low?income bracket to pay for the cost of installing energy efficiency measures. New measures, including air?to?air heat pumps and heat batteries, will be added to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which provides up to £7,500 for qualifying installations.
• New protections for renters – Landlords will be required to invest up to £10,000 per property to meet EPC B and C across two metrics by October 2030 unless the property has a valid exemption.

Delivery of the Warm Homes Plan will be overseen by a new Warm Homes Agency combining the delivery functions of Ofgem, Salix and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. There will also be additional funding for the Heat Training Grant to support the upskilling of heating engineers, with a new Warm Homes Skills Programme for other qualifications in solar panels, insulation and assessment.