Question reference: S6W-09261
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 23 June 2022
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 12 July 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many non-zero-emissions heating systems have been installed under the second Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing; how many such installations it has supported with funding, and how much funding it has provided for these non-zero-emissions heating system installations.
Answer
The second Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH2) does not prescribe what measures a landlord should install.
The Scottish Housing Regulator does not currently publish data on the value of investment on complying with EESSH2 nor on the individual measures installed in order to comply with EESSH2 milestones.
Between 2018 and 2021, £7 million was made available by the Scottish Government to Local Authority and Housing Association landlords through the Energy Efficient Scotland Transition Programme’s Decarbonisation Fund to assist in compliance with EESSH and EESSH2. The funding was for energy efficiency measures, such as insulation and internal works, within projects that included decarbonisation activity (e.g. ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, biomass, solar PV and storage) and the conversion of off-gas grid properties to these technologies. The Scottish Government did not provide direct funding for heating in these properties.
Since 2020, the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund has committed £14.33 million of grant funding to 20 social housing decarbonisation retrofit projects across Scotland. This includes the installation of zero emissions heating systems and “fabric first” energy efficiency upgrades. Non-zero-emissions solutions are not eligible for support under this fund. The Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme (LCITP) has provided a further £6.1 million of grant funding to two projects involving the installation of zero emissions heating.