Household Energy Efficiency Skills
Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes
Identifying opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the household energy-efficiency skills delivery system.
The Heating and Energy Saving Strategy (HESS), published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in June 2009, highlights that one of the major barriers to successfully reducing Household carbon emissions to near zero by 2050 is the lack of skills provision.
This project is currently being undertaken by Pro Enviro for the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes (facilitated by the Energy Savings Trust), with the aim of identifying those skills gaps, through evaluating current skills provision and future demand, fuelled by both energy policy and market forces.
We have looked at the national landscape and identified partnerships that address the skills needs of new technologies, and the lack of appropriate qualifications and schemes where employer-led demand has stimulated the skills system to respond. From this we are mapping the emerging energy efficiency/low carbon related skills and qualification requirements, training and funding routes for the jobs in the heating, insulation, micro-generation, energy efficiency advice, home energy assessment, and low carbon refurbishment industry sectors.
The ultimate project output is a report, detailing the results of the research and the input of the stakeholders to describe:
- How skills and training is currently provided, gaps in delivery with present and projected skills demand
- Examples of good spatial skills partnerships
- Options and recommendations for an effective skills delivery framework, mainstreaming good practice and meeting future needs
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