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0081 2023/24
29/02/2024
Regeneration & Planning
All wards
St Helens HECA Progress 2023 Report
To approve and publish the St Helens Borough Council's Home Energy Conservation Act Report 2023
St Helens Borough Council's HECA Report 2023 provides responses to the 2023 report template questions which are divided into sections to capture information on a range of key themes, these include: Headline & Overview What main strategy and schemes LA’s currently have to promote carbon reduction and/or energy efficiency, stakeholders involved and impact at a societal and economic level. Communication How LAs engage stakeholders to promote awareness of energy efficiency. Green Local Supply Chain. How LAs engage local businesses in the promotion of energy savings products and the societal benefits alongside any local economic impact this might have. Social Housing Decarbonisation What actions LAs and Social Housing partners have taken to install energy efficiency measures. Private Rental Sector Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards How LAs enforce and promote awareness of the PRS Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards that came into force in April 2018 and April 2020 Green Home Finance Leveraging private finance to promote energy efficiency. Fuel Poverty How LAs identify those in fuel poverty and any initiatives used to address this. Government Funded Schemes LA participation in schemes such as LAD, HUG and ECO. Smart Metering How LAs promote awareness and uptake of smart metering. The majority of the questions are multiple choice and require a limited response. Attached is DESNZ HECA 2023 guidance document and the St Helens Borough Council HECA report 2023 (Draft), the report will be published on-line on the following page: https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/housing/energy-efficiency/sthelens-council-home-energy-conservation-act-heca-report/
The Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 (HECA) requires all local authorities (LAs) in England to submit reports to the Secretary of State of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) demonstrating what energy conservation measures they have adopted to improve the energy performance of residential accommodation within that LA’s area. This covers measures to improve properties in the owner-occupier, private rented sector, and social rented sector. For the 2023 reporting year DESNZ is requesting for submission of reports via a digital platform and will continue to be centred around a series of questions. The reports will now be submitted through Microsoft Forms by the deadline of 29th February 2024. No other reporting material or submissions will be required. LAs continue to be required to publish their responses on-line.
To approve the St Helens Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA) Report 2023 and to submit to the Secretary of State of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) by the deadline of 29th February 2024, in accordance with the requirements of the HECA 1995 and subsequent guidance issued by DESNZ.
Failure to submit a HECA report will be a breach of Government requirements.
HECA report prepared in accordance with requirements.
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