Investment in energy efficiency
Financial incentives need to be offered to property developers and householders in order to make investment in building fabric improvements and LZC technologies attractive. Currently, grant schemes are the main financing option for encouraging building fabric measures and installing renewables but these schemes have limitations and are not on a large enough scale to bring about a market transformation. There is a variety of financing options that are potentially effective for stimulating the uptake of LZC technologies, including a fair energy tariff structure, tax breaks, ‘green’ mortgages, leaseback and ESCos.
