For Cabinet to approve:
(i) The ECO Board’s recommendation to streamline three action plans under the ECO Strategy into an Energy Resilience Plan for Wiltshire.
(ii) An amendment to the Warm and Well Home Energy Efficiency Scheme so that it focuses on providing grants of up to £200 to cover the ‘top up’ payments currently required from vulnerable customers.
(iii) Delegated authority to the Service Director, Economy and Enterprise, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Waste, Property, Environment and Development Control Services, to extend the Warm and Well Scheme as appropriate, should additional third party funding be made available (e.g. by energy suppliers).
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Decision due: 25 Apr 2012 by Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Development Management, Strategic Housing, Operational Property and Waste
Lead member: Cllr Toby Sturgis, Cabinet Member for Spatial Planning, Development Management and Property toby.sturgis@wiltshire.gov.uk
Department: Economy and Enterprise
Contact: Vincent Albano 01225 756198 email: vincent.albano@wiltshire.gov.uk.
Consultation process
The ECO Strategy is a framework document which states an intention to develop a number of action plans. These plans will be the subject of consultation depending on their content.
The proposed changes to the Warm and Well Scheme have been discussed with the management company, Severn Wye Energy, Installer Domestic and General and energy suppliers. The proposed changes to the eligibility criteria and grant cap has been arrived at following analysis of the scheme’s performance between June 2011 and March 2012.