Cabinet was informed that the Energy Company Obligation (ECO4) was a government energy-efficiency scheme in Great Britain designed to tackle fuel poverty and help reduce carbon emissions. ECO was an obligation placed on energy companies to deliver energy efficiency measures to domestic premises. Although ECO was not a grant scheme; it was up to the energy companies to determine which retrofit projects they chose to fund, the level of funding they provided and the Retrofit Coordinator and installers that they choose to work with.
Members considered a request to enter into a funded ECO managed service contract with The Warmfront Team Ltd (WFT) and J&J Crump and Son Ltd, to carry out energy performance improvement works to the Council's housing stock. WFT had carried out site based thermal efficiency reviews of the Council’s housing stock and have identified 583 properties that would likely qualify for ECO4 funding
Cabinet stated that this was a good opportunity to work on the housing stock and received assurances that a Clerk of Works would be employed to make individual inspections.
RESOLVED, that the request to enter into the contractual service agreement with The Warmfront Team Ltd and J&J Crump and Son Ltd, be approved to enable the Council to utilise funding from, the Great British Insulation Scheme and The Energy Company Obligation Scheme (ECO4).
Reason
Whilst this scheme is not a statutory obligation this supports the Government’s aims to tackle fuel poverty and help reduce carbon emissions.