Recommendation 11

The current ECO scheme is not delivering anywhere near the numbers of energy efficiency improvements it did at its peak a decade ago. The Government needs to ensure that ECO+ is properly funded to deliver hundreds of thousands if not millions of improvements every year for the remainder of this decade. We recommend that the Government set a target to build capacity in the energy efficiency sector, with an objective to deliver at least 1 million installations a year by 2025 and 2.5 million a year by the end of the decade. The Government should direct the newly-announced Energy Efficiency Taskforce to estimate the extent of additional funding required to achieve such a timetable. (Paragraph 69) 82 Accelerating the transition from fossil fuels and securing energy supplies