Government policies

Energy efficiency commitment

Starting dates

2002: introduced

2004: proposal to continue to at least 2008

Key department DEFRA
Key delivery agency Energy suppliers
Budget/target/comment

Requires electricity and gas suppliers to meet targets for domestic energy efficiency and forces them to focus at least half of the resulting activities on low income consumers.

Focused on those in social housing.

Ofgem estimates that around 5 million low-income households will have benefited by 2005.

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