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Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes. Annex 2b: Cost benefit analysis of policies

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Abstract:

This project studied how value can be delivered across a smart energy value chain - in the context of the UK. It built a clear understanding of how smart energy systems can deliver combined consumer value alongside commercial value for market participants - producers, suppliers, distributors. The analysis will help to make the commercial deployment of smart energy systems more likely. This £600,000 project was delivered by Frontier Economics, a leading economic consultancy.

The final report has 11 annexes. This is Annex 2b: Cost benefit analysis of policies, and provides a quantitative appraisal of the five policies highlighted as being promising in our evaluation of policy options(annexe 2a):

  • stamp duty rebates;
  • council tax rebates;
  • grants;
  • including energy bills in headline rental prices; and
  • a package of regulation and support for district heat.

Policies such as these will succeed or fail based on their ability to overcome barriers to the take up of low-carbon heating interventions. As many of these barriers are intrinsically difficult to model, many of the most useful insights from this exercise are qualitative in nature, and these are summarised.

In the remainder of this document, we set out the framework used for the quantitative analysis, and present results for each policy in turn.

This document was prepared at the time to contribute to ETI internal thinking and planning only.

Publication Year:

2015

Publisher:

ETI

Author(s):

Frontier Economics

Language:

English

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506476 B

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Further information:

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Region:

United Kingdom

Publication Type:

Technical Report

Subject:

Buildings

Theme(s):

Smart Systems and Heat

Related Dataset(s):

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