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Greater Manchester Low Carbon Economic Area

That by 2015 Greater Manchester has established itself as a world leading city region in the transformation to a low carbon economy.

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Greater Manchester Low Carbon Economic Area

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Work Package 1 – Housing RetrofitAim is to reduce CO2 emissions from the existing domestic sector by 26% by 2015.

1. Understand and scope GM’s housing stock and assess the technical constraints, challenges and opportunities to delivering planned interventions.

2. Deliver basic energy efficiency measures to homes at a majority scale across Greater Manchester – 75% of all remaining homes with under-insulated lofts or un-insulated cavities to be treated by 2013.

3. Offer eco-upgrades to 27 % of homes using ‘GM eco-upgrade’ standard and strategy by 2015

4. Deliver energy aware households efficiently managing home energy use. All GM homes to be fitted with Smart Meters and have access to in-depth behavioural change energy advice by 2015.

Greater Manchester Low Carbon Economic Area

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Greater Manchester Low Carbon Economic Area

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Housing Intelligence• Currently still pulling data in, however top-line information gives the following (all in social housing tenure):

• Note – Proportion of • Un-insulated Cavities (15%)• Solid Wall Un-insulated (7%)

Wall type (GM social housing)

solid wall (pre 1919) untreated

solid wall (pre 1919) treated

cavity wall (post 1919) un-insulated

cavity wall (post 1919) insulated

timber frame

solid wall/system built untreated

solid wall/system built treated

other/ unknown

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Basic Measures

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Basic Measures

Recommendations agreed by AGMA

• Development of an overarching public facing campaign to promote energy efficiency retrofit in housing across GM.

• Each AGMA Authority to consider a one-off financial contribution spread over a three year period as outlined in Table 2, in order to attract Energy Company CERT (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) funding.

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Basic Measures

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Eco Upgrades

Lots of activity

• Successful ERDF bid for £5m of funding for Social Housing Retrofit Projects

• Regional Growth Fund Bid for further retrofit schemes submitted, trialing PAYS concepts in social housing.

• Pioneering work on FiT based financing models with Wigan and Leigh Housing

• Development of ‘GM Retrofit standard’

• Direct dialogue on behalf of GM with government on strategic role of Local Authorities in Green Deal development and delivery.

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ERDF Projects

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Behavioural Change

Focus for today